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The Sarajevo Olympics - A History of the 1984 Winter Games (Hardcover)
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The Sarajevo Olympics - A History of the 1984 Winter Games (Hardcover)
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To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo,
Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the unlikeliest
of candidate cities in the unlikeliest of candidate countries did
what many had thought impossible: it hosted an international sports
competition at the highest level, housing and feeding hundreds of
athletes and thousands of tourists while broadcasting a positive
image of socialist Yugoslavia to the world. The first Winter Games
held in a communist country, Sarajevo also marked the first Olympic
confrontation of Soviet and American athletes since the U.S.
boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Games. And the competitions
themselves were spectacular and memorable. This was the Olympics of
British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, American
skiers "Wild Bill" Johnson and Debbie Armstrong, and East German
skaters Katarina Witt and Karin Enke, not to mention a Soviet
hockey team that rebounded from its stunning loss to the Americans
at Lake Placid four years earlier to win all seven of its matches.
Yet The Sarajevo Olympics is more than just a history of sport.
Jason Vuic also retraces the history of the Olympic movement,
analyzes the inner workings of the International Olympic Committee
during the troubled 1970s and 1980s, and places the 1984 Winter
Games in the context of Cold War geopolitics. The book begins and
ends by reminding readers that less than a decade after it hosted
the Olympics, the Bosnian city of Sarajevo found itself at the
vortex of a bloody and brutal civil war that would end with the
dissolution of the multiethnic Yugoslavian state.
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