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It's 40 years since the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. While many of the structures built for the Games were destroyed in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, the city's residents have happy memories of the event itself.
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00:00 One, two, three, three.
00:02 Ibiza and Misko.
00:04 It's Canada.
00:07 Izaki.
00:10 One, two, three, three.
00:12 That year Sarajevo was, I think, the center of the world.
00:21 It was a period when we were all happy and cheerful.
00:26 It was beautiful.
00:27 To see the world in a small way in those years in Sarajevo
00:30 is one of the experiences that we all remember
00:33 as a beautiful event in our lives from that time.
00:35 I was a kid and I know that I took a picture with one Japanese,
00:40 it was a Japanese representation, Bob.
00:43 Bob was there and I still have that picture, that photograph.
00:46 I was personally on the plateau of Skanderije
00:50 when a big visit for Jure Frank was made,
00:53 and at that time, as our representative of our state of Yugoslavia,
00:57 he won a silver medal.
00:59 These are events that remain in permanent memory.
01:02 I remember that there was a big problem
01:13 that there was no snow before the start of the Olympic Games,
01:17 and then, in the very God's help,
01:20 a day before the start of the Olympic Games on the battlefield,
01:25 a lot of snow fell,
01:26 something the best that people could imagine and expect.
01:30 That evening there was a huge event in Sarajevo.
01:34 They shared with us all that we were capable of,
01:37 winter equipment,
01:40 and we all went to clean the snow.
01:43 That was what remained imprinted.
01:48 [Music]
02:06 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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