olympics

I think this is my first post since joining this site some considerable time ago. While refuelling on the way into Cortina I spied this rather decrepit looking structure, and having time to kill before getting in contact with the group I was meeting for a combined adventure training and...

Ah, The Balkans, where to begin... it's my favorite area of the world, and everytime I get the chance to travel,I try to tick one of those countries off the list. This time it was a quick 4-day trip to Bosnia. While doing some research about potential urbex sites I came across some pretty famous...

NB: not the best at night photography so sorry for the poor quality At the start of the year I was visiting Rome with some friends to study the architecture of the city and so when we learned of an abandoned Nervi stadium we couldn't pass up the opportunity to check it out. The Stadium...

Sarajevo hosted the winter Olympics in 1984; many of the facilities were abandoned, damaged during the war and now still lie abandoned in various locations in the mountains surrounding the city. Bobsleigh Track Located on Trebević mountain this site is open and very easy to access. If you...

Visited with Wea5el. The 1984 Winter Olympics, was a winter multi-sport event which took place from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina). It was the first Winter Olympics held in a Communist state. Bob Sleigh The 1300-meter concrete track was completed...

Firstly this is a bit of a tale so I apologise for the seemingly long blurb, but the pictures alone won't tell much of the personal and background story without it, bear with me :-) 1984, Sarajevo in Bosnia hosted the Winter Olympics, a World watched on as the games showed all that was great...

I don't know if anyone else saw this article from the Daily Express last month; "SECURITY STEPS FOR 2012" 'Britain's Olympic bosses are stepping up security measures against a terror attack on the 2012 site by installing underwater barrages and a secret military radar to detect low-flying...

1978 was Bosnia a part of the "Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia" and it was with great pride they could announce that Yugoslavia would be hosting the Winter Olympics in 1984, and that the games would take place in and around Sarajevo, the only Winter Games which took place in the old "Eastern...