City of Ghosts - a place where 34 years ago held the Olympic Games in Sarajevo (PHOTO)

It's been 34 years since the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. If you visit the place where they were doing today, you will get the impression that the time has come to an end because the complex is completely abandoned.

After the 14th Winter Olympic Games, there were 2,850 newly built comfortable apartments, several beautiful hotels and much more in Sarajevo, alongside beautiful Olympic facilities, and 9,500 new jobs were opened. Some of the facilities, such as the Zetra hall and the Kosevo stadium, are still functioning today, but they are also permanently abandoned.

Sarajevo won the organization of the Winter Olympics in competition with the Japanese Sapor and the joint candidacy of the Swedish cities of Falun and Gothenburg. The IOC was partially guided by political reasons - as an unsettled country, then Yugoslavia gave less chance for Cold War boycott - but the main motive was the desire to keep the Games, as a symbol of world peace and fraternity among people, in a city that was usually so common was bound to the outbreak of the First World War.

For the authorities of Yugoslavia, the Sarajevo Olympic was a great opportunity to present the state to the world in the best possible light, and in that endeavor did not interfere with the great economic crisis that the SFRY hit the beginning of the 1980s. The Games have spent a lot of money.

Organization 14. ZOI cost $ 142.6 million, and half of the revenue was generated from the sale of rights to TV transfers. 1,272 athletes from 49 countries participated, and more than 4,500 journalists reported from the Games. On them skier Jure Franko won the first medal for Yugoslavia at the ZOI in history - a silver medal in the giant slalom. The exhibition about the Olympic Sarajevo was visited by 1,640 cities of the former Yugoslavia and the world, and today many in the homes have "Vučka", a mascot of ZOI in Sarajevo.

• 11 Feb, 2018
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