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- The War of Independence broke out in Bosnia in 1992, less than a decade after the Olympic Games. The mountains above Sarajevo, where the Olympic facilities were built, turned into a war zone. The bobsleigh track became a concrete trench, while the podium served as an execution site.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Previously, Bosnian and Herzegovinian athletes competed for Yugoslavia at the Olympic Games.
Less than a decade after the former Yugoslavia became the first Communist country to host the Winter Olympics (in 1984), bloody conflict from 1992-95 tore the country apart.
Feb 6, 2014 · By 1992, the Yugoslavian Federation broke up, triggering a three-year civil war between Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats. The 44-month Siege of Sarajevo killed 11,000 people and was the...
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Yugoslavia (1920–1992 W) Bosnia and Herzegovina sent athletes to the Summer Olympic Games under its own flag for the first time in 1992. Bosnian athletes competed under the Yugoslav flag (see Yugoslavia at the Olympics) until the breakup of that country. Along with Albania, Andorra, Malta and Monaco, Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of five ...
The War of Independence broke out in Bosnia in 1992, less than a decade after the Olympic Games. The mountains above Sarajevo, where the Olympic facilities were built, turned into a war zone. The bobsleigh track became a concrete trench, while the podium served as an execution site.
Nov 30, 1992 · Nov. 30, 1992 12 AM PT. <i> From Associated Press</i> SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Battles raged throughout the republic Sunday, just hours before a truce between Serbian and Croatian forces...
Serbian forces pummeled Yugoslavia’s former capital of Sarajevo (the site of the 1984 Winter Olympics), with shelling and sniper fire, killing innocent civilians—and it was all broadcasted into American homes.
