Olympic Museum

“Since I didn't have any painting supplies whatsoever, I was forced to look everywhere: buildings, ruins, and institutions that had been important during times of peace, and which had completely lost their status during the war. You see, an artist has this drive that forces him to create, to work, to confirm the time and space in which he lives, and of course himself in relation to that. And so I found my materials in destroyed buildings, in institutions such as the Museum of the XIV Olympic Games.”

- Affan Ramić, Painter

“We didn't have the proper conditions for training here in Sarajevo. And we had no guarantee that we would be able to get out. We had no bobsled, and so on. So, at that point it seemed incomprehensible that we wanted to go and compete in the Olympic Games. But, I think that it was because of our, I'd call it our competitive spirit, our human quality, that we were able to prepare here in Sarajevo, and that we succeeded in going to the Olympic Games.”

- Zdravko Stojnić, Athlete

“They were more peaceful, if I may put it like that, Olympic sports days if you compare them with the earlier period for Barcelona, and we had some war experience by then and were by then extremely experienced in how to get out of Sarajevo…The others from the team left Sarajevo in various ways, some via UNPROFOR or by the runway, that is through the tunnel.”

- Izudin Filipović, Director of the BH Olympic Committee