Word: sarajevo
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...words as "biathlon" again, and talking of Nordic skiing and the luge. A foreign language for Americans, who in a sense return to the Old World on these occasions, or a dream version of that world, to European movie kingdoms where athletes really do come from Liechtenstein. For 1984: Sarajevo. (Henceforth no schoolchild will be stumped on that
Heartening news: two weeks before the first puck is to drop in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (for the first of six hockey games to be played Feb. 7, the day before the opening ceremonies), the supply of slivovitz, a high-octane schnapps made from plums, is still holding out. Zivjeli! ("Bottoms up!" in Serbo-Croatian). All reserves may be needed, however, before the closing ceremony, Feb. 19. The proud and fiery Yugoslavs have quelled their tendency to airy improvisation, and they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This...
Thus the Games will open on schedule in a mood of well-justified gaiety and self-congratulation among the Yugoslavs. Branko Mikulic, the forceful fist banger who is president of Yugoslavia's Olympic Organizing Committee, and a former president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, of which Sarajevo is the capital, guaranteed the complete success of the Games and then went off to give his staff a dressing down described as "thunderous" on some unspecified subject. "I believe we are completely ready to host the Games," insists one official. Still it was true that there were a few minor shortcomings. Sarajevo...
...Mount Bjelasnica, some 500 soldiers were packing the racecourses, stolidly enduring the 5�F cold and the eternal winds. It was a time to be philosophical; at least no one was shooting at them. In Sarajevo, members of a student volunteer brigade goofed and joked as they worked without undue haste at shoveling snow from the center of Kosevo Stadium. Mirjan Jarovije-vic, 15, a student at the Yaroslav Cernyi technical school, took the arrival of a visitor as a splendid opportunity to lean on his shovel and sneak a smoke. He said he had been chosen for the work...
Until recently, the citizens of Sarajevo did not realize that they lacked a bob and luge run?in fact such a marvel did not exist in all of Yugoslavia?but now they have one, on the wooded slopes of 1,629-meter Mount Trebevic, one of the big, round-shouldered hills that guard Sarajevo on three sides. There is also a fine new indoor skating complex, an assertively modern structure with brown, smoked reflecting glass in the entryways and windows and, in the manner of the Pompidou Center in Paris, intentionally exposed ventilation pipes visible outside. Near...