1984 Olympic village Sarajevo

Jul 11, 2017 5:31 PM

icarusrex6

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From the roof

A pool

A room

Bottom view of stairs

Gotta kill something

Pretty dystopian

Still with electronics for the TV signal

That looks sturdy

Inside the jump

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8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Beautiful Brutalism.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Paintball anyone?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nuke the whales!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I'm 33 and this place looks like how I feel some days.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My high school friend who is no longer with us was there as a ski jumper.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I didn't know that, back then, Winter and Summer Olympics were held the same year! I was in L.A. during the summer Olympics.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#17 I see a few of us have already been

8 years ago | Likes 75 Dislikes 2

I thought it was the wales

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Kinda sure they've had a war since the Olympics

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Spend all that money to build the place and then abandon it after it's over. How sad and wasteful.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Where's the cellist?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What a waste.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This would be a great place to fly v

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Every place is a great place to fly.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#4 says 'I hate fag's. Could not believe how much graffiti was aimed at gays while living in Serbia and Bosnia. Smrt pederima everywhere.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Most of balkans have very patriarchal upbringing. But on other hands, it mostly depends on personal upbringing by parents. I usually 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2/2 dont have problem with what 2 consenting adults do in privacy of their home, and most people here dont either.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is why I'm a firm believer that a city shouldn't host unless it can already support the games. Limits choices but stops this

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

there should be a show on cable where they flip Olympic venues like people flip houses

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The 1984 summer Olympics were in Los Angeles, not Sarajevo.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Dude some of this looks like the place hardcore Henry was shot lol

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's pretty incredible. I'd love to go. I live near Lake Placid, so seeing a winter Olympic venue completely abandoned would be spooky.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*Fires up favorite TSO album*

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Huh, I thought the 84 Olympics were in LA

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Unfortunately this happens a lot to locations where the Olympics has happened build build build spend spend spend then fall into decay

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

To be fair we had a war not too long ago after the olympics, including the occupation of said city in the post. Source: I live there

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Can confirm. I live there also.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Those fiber cables might still be good! Take them!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I served here as a UN soldier in 1995. (French marine )

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1 for the lurkers tag

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Would love to see what it looked like in 1984!

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It's crazy how much money and materials get wasted building a whole town that gets used for 2 months and is then left to rot.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's simply due to poor management. After the Olympics are done with, the logical solution would be to create apartments/hotels/recreation.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In Sydney it because a booming residential suburb, and we still use all of the Olympic venues!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Australia has the luxury of not being ridiculously corrupt and/or a shithole. Look at Brazil's brand new Olympic village now.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, fuck those whales!!

8 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 2

Found the Skitty!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right in the blow hole.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I remember as a child seeing a guy wearing a shirt that said "Nuke the Gay Whales", I was very confused by it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Yeah i mean Hadnt you had one of those days that these whales anoyed the fuck out of you?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Look i my street cred man, those fcking whales man.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh i mean that one whale last seen in iceland and eh that other one man. Really he is a special one. Last seen captive in new mexico...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They make me mad.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gotta nuke something

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I really hope LA gets the 2024 Olympics. We already have the infrastructure so this won't happen.

8 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 7

Just announced that LA will get either the 2024 or 2028 games. (The other city will be Paris).

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, the 84 Olympics went well because of that

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A decade of war probably interfered with the maintenence plan

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

It's 2028

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Born/raised in LA. I disagree vehemently with this statement. We are a sprawling mess and the olympics would only make things worse.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Having had to sit through the CalExit whining during this past year, I have this to say:

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i... i don't even know if what that's supposed to convey. heh. care to explain?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Many celebrities during the last election and many Californians in general voiced pulling Cali from the US, citing Cali's infrastructure.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A common argument the rest of the US heard on repeat was about Cali having the perfect huge economy to do so, contrary to your opinion here.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To be fair, Sarajevo had some complicating factors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sarajevo

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

I'm amazed they don't teach about this in school. At least not at the schools I went to.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The breakup of Yugoslavia was definitely taught here, but it was kind of blurred into the larger collapse of communism in Europe.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

LA is already such a shit show though. The left wing extremists would protest the hell out of it and ruin whatever they can.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 9

Oh, knock it off.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

...out of the olympics?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

? I'd be more concerned with our gigantic congestion issues and lack of usable public transportation.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The new Fallout looks great.

8 years ago | Likes 89 Dislikes 1

I can already see it! "Bethesda proudly presents: Fallout -- Abandoned Olympic Villages" It's going to be glorious!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

what's gonna be the next one? we'll find out in another 7 years.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

cascadia/washington state: fan built on the FO4 engine; quite far along. the next official game is unknown

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I would kill for a Fallout with realistic weapons set in Europe. Meanwhile there is Stalker and Metro.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Worth remembering that the lack of any vault tech vaults and prior nuclear wars in Europe means there's nobody left.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ghouls in Paris ?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I mean possibly? But there would be a distinct lack of any human characters. Although maybe that could work without the damned croaky voices

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fallout Australia: nuclear winter has blesses them with a temperate climate. Life goes on as normal.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

"omg Australia has cazadores?!" "no mate, that's just a regular Australian wasp." "but it's a foot long!" "yep, he's still growing."

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Be careful when you are up there. There are gangs that specialized on tourists visiting these places. Explore this place in groups.

8 years ago | Likes 380 Dislikes 5

Sounds like that building Bruce Lee went to in Game Of Death.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

plot twist: there are gangs that specialize in tourist groups. Commenter is drumming up business.

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

such as The Lurkers?

8 years ago | Likes 153 Dislikes 1

But they made a post, they aren't lurkers anymore.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 3

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who is mowing the grass?

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I want to know more!

8 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 0

Sadly there is not much more to say. Small groups are waiting there to rob naive tourists. No chance to call the police or cry for help. 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The place is really cool and visit it when you are in Sarajevo. But don't be stupid and go alone. There is a chance you are getting robbed/2

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Reasons why they are waiting there: Usually small tourist groups, expensive camera equipment, usually young tourists with expensive phones/1

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

no chance to call for help, if you somehow manage to call the police (bad signal) they need 45min+ to arrive, it's also easy too flee. 2/2

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yes please.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

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8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0