Mount Jahorina, the site of the women’s Alpine skiing events has been jazzed up and reopened. Business is booming there now but the off-course slopes are still too dangerous to be used. In October 2011 a Slovenian paraglider landed in the area and was left with critical injuries when he set off a landmine.
Torvill and Dean, the most famous ice skaters ever and all round goody-two-shoes performed at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. They received their famous bunch of 6’s from the judges. The Zetra Hall which hosted the figure skating was left nothing more than a bombed out husk of a building. It has since been rebuilt thanks to an $11.5 million gift from the International Olympic Committee.
Thankfully Sarajevo is now on the road to recovery boasting one of the strongest economies in southeastern Europe. Tourism, population and air traffic is all on the rise and things are looking up. The physical and psychological scars of war will take a little longer to heal than the economic wounds though.
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