Sarajevo Olympics 1984 opening ceremony.

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in a socialist country (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow).

The torch relay for the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic games started in Olympia-Athens and then by Airplane to Dubrovnik (Route One) Split- Ljubljana Zagreb - Sarajevo(Route Two) Skopje Novi Sad Belgrade Sarajevo The total distance of the Torch relay was 5,289 km (plus 2,879 km of local routes). Two Routes main routes and one in the west (2,602 km), the other in the east (2,687 km). The final torchbearer, from a total of 1600, was Sanda Dubravcic.

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[MariaSoledad1987]

ps I consider myself Bosnian not Serbian regardless if Im orthodox thats my customs, food. I'm a proud Bosnian and regardless of the war my father and family have remained in Bosnia becuase its beautiful place and I have returned too after the war as well. Ja te volim Bosna <3

[MultiDaani]

@ MariaSoledad: Your comment is the one I like the most so far. Thanks.

[deemoIII]

you all sound like prehistoric neanderthals.... sramota.

[Mrbrianjohnson951]

@international153

I don't hate Yugoslavia, it just that they have somehow managed to destroyed Yugoslavia from within.

[Galib8111]

Bosnia,I love you ! <3

[KimCult]

@MariaSoledad1987

Svaka cast!!!!

[phanuruch8555]

the flag is raised upside down

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[kalosanin2]

0:13 400th Anniversary of Yugoslavia ???  don't you mean 40th

[randrianabel]

@mylesag2

Sanda dubavcic was the athlet who switch on the olympic flam

Sanda was an artistic skater and she reached the 9th or 10th place i don"t remember well!

[0rth0doX]

kako su nam samo zavideli....

[herrgolf]

Can someone tell me what the Serbocroatian words used during the Cauldron lighting is?

[1906965181507]

That was Yugoslavia, I was in army, JNA, in Belgrade, during these Sarajevo Olimpic Games