February 21, 2014: Abandoned Olympic venues from Sarajevo 1984

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Eight years after their Olympics, Sarajevo went through a war that lasted almost four years. Most of the hotels and sports facilities were destroyed.

Mt Trebevic, used for a number of Olympic events, became an artillery strongpoint. The two hills used for ski-jumping saw heavy combat and the Zetra ice rink was burnt to the ground, so it would have been wrong to expect them to keep the site up. But here is entropy in action.



Bobsled run in ruins. The bobsled area was used as a Bosnian-Serb artillery stronghold.



Abandoned ski jump. The mountain was used as an artillery position. Notice the big walls erected at the bottom of the jumps, so nobody can use them.



Medal podium at the ski jump.



An area of the sports complex was turned into a quick graveyard.

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