As someone who was in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2004, it is an amazingly beautiful country with great people. Sadly, they have not recovered from what happened in the early 90s

Such a shame what happened only a few years later

great video, but I have a lump in my throat. only eight years later, Sarajevo became a theatre of war.

Imagine the city that once was hosted the olympic games were involve in a war 8 years later that killed thousands of people.

At 9:04, the word about Egypt's appearance in the 1984 Winter Olympics goes like this: "Egypt, wouldn't expect to see them here, would you. Egypt, the one-man team, Jamil el-Reedy, he is a skier." - Jim McKay

when I was little I was interested in the breakup of Yugoslavia. It was always difficult for me to understand how it was possible that after only 8 years the situation had changed so tragically

Thank you so much!!

Oh boy do I wish Yougoslavia still existed today.

I enjoy this video. I was born 11 days later, 3 days before the closing ceremonies. Then 8 years, a violent war brakes out. I hope in the future Sarajevo can host the Winter Olympics once again.

40 years ago

Thank you for this important upload!

14:09 my country 🇰🇷

Dude finally i found this on a complete archive.

It was happy...

13:14 The Next Host National is Canada in 1988 Winter Olympic Games!

THIS is an actual ABC Broadcast. They both did Sarajevo AND Los Angeles

Jim McKay, God bless him, was somewhat of a hackneyed announcer -- he probably wouldn't stand well in today's standards. Some of the gems he uttered here: 41:32 "Well they certainly could be patterns you might knit into a sweater." 10:45 "They've never won a Winter Olympics medal, and they certainly won't here." 09:04 "Egypt! You wouldn't expect to see them here, would ya?" 42:43 "Moving into yet another pattern ... no, this is the one they did in the first place." 15:05 "Mongolians often show up at the last minute, this time they knew they were coming." 09:18 "He recently spent 40 days in a cave that fella, in the middle of the Sahara surrounded by snakes and scorpions.. his father took him there, thinking it would make him a man. He ought to be tough enough for the slopes." 42:50 "I think that's the one I'll ask Margaret to knit into my sweater."

When I listen to President Samaranch's English, I think that my own English as a Japanese person is not bad either. The English I'm good at is "I can't speak English!"

Tears come to my eyes when I think of how they will be deceived by foolish politicians in a few years and commit a tragedy of massacring each other 😢😢😢

Great!

Ok but can we talk about how good he is doing with pronouncing the states in serbocroatian? Like he is American, give him some credit.

Y’know it’s surprising since Koševo stadium was restored

My YU 🥲

32:55 Olympics flag raising flip this flag

Yugoslavia is no more

I have not been to Sarajevo before

Sarajevo is a big cityyyy

IT WAS FINE IT WAS FINE IN SARAJEVO

Unlucky that in the march of nations, you don't get to see my home country Sweden. I do know that our flag is carried by ice hockey player Mats Waltin. But I would have liked to see Sweden anyway.

La Yugoslavia que Tito unificó demostraba su orgullo en estos Juegos Olimpicos .. Después vinieron los EUA y la OTAN a su costumbre sangrienta de destruir todo lo que penosamente se construyó durante 40 años.

14:08

24:02

СССР но одели спорсменов в российский платок 😂

If there's one thing I could NOT stand it's Jim McKay's use of metaphors such as, "--until the Closing Ceremonies bring down the curtain on these 14th Winter Olympics." That sucked big time. McKay was such an overblown, poetic windbag. Just sayin'.