28th anniversary of the Sarajevo Olympics

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the Sarajevo Olympics held 1984thyear.
Sarajevo Winter Olympics organization is awarded in competition with Japanese Sapporo and joint candidacy Swedish town of Falun, and Gothenburg.
The IOC is partly guided by political reasons - as a non-aligned countries, former Yugoslavia gave less opportunity for the Cold War boycotts - but the main motive is the desire that the Games as a symbol of world peace and brotherhood among the people - keep in a city that has hitherto usually was associated exclusively with the outbreak of World War II.
Winter Olympics 1984 is often considered most brilliant moment in the history of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia, and in many ways represented the antithesis of everything that Sarajevo was hit eight years later.
Therefore, there was an initiative to host a new Sarajevo Winter Olympics, which would be 2014th held on 30 anniversary of the Winter Olympics in 1984, and 100th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination, and so forever buried the dark past.
Organization of the 14th WIC cost 142.6 million dollars, half of the revenue realized from the sale of rights to broadcast TV - the Sarajevo Olympics was followed by a white two billion viewers.
Tickets sold was 250,000, of which overseas 200,000. Participated 1272 athletes from 49 countries, with the Games was reported more than 4,500 journalists. After 14 Winter Olympics city has remained near the 2850 Olympic venues newly built comfortable dwellings, several hotels.
Skier Jure Franko won the first medal for Yugoslavia at the Olympic Winter Games in history - a silver medal in giant slalom, and always humorous Sarajevans greeted by the slogan, "We like Jurek more pasty."
However, the biggest stars of the Sarajevo Olympics were the competitors in figure skating. The best impression left by the British pair Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean who won the gold medal in the dance. The Festival has won the gold medal and East German skater Katarina Witt by the Sarajevo Olympics just made one of the greatest sports icon of the late 20th Ages.
To mark the anniversary of the Sarajevo Olympics Sarajevo, BiH Olympic Committee, Winter '84. and the British Embassy in BiH today organized an academy in the Olympic Museum in "Zetra".
After screening the candidacy of Sarajevo and East Sarajevo in the winter European Youth Olympic Festival 2017th, will address the audience the President of Olympic Committee of Bosnia Izet Rađo, the mayor of Sarajevo Alija Behmen, the mayor of East Sarajevo Vinko Radovanovic and General Secretary of the Organizing Committee of 14th Olympics '84.Ahmed Karabegović.
ZOI 84 calls for a concert to mark 28 years of Olympic Games in Sarajevo.
The group will perform a concert Zoster, Alicia Keys and the convoy, and organized the after party where you will be entertained Disco Bajaga Dubioza with members of the collective.
Admission is free!