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This scarred and pitted track is a reminder of the bitter 1992-95 Bosnian war in which thousands lost their lives. The conflict also destroyed the Olympic facilities that found themselves on the front lines on mountains around Sarajevo. The bobsled track on Mount Trebevic, overlooking Sarajevo, was a concrete skeleton. But a team, led by Senad Omanovic from the Bosnian Bob and Luge Federation, was determined to restore it.  After a huge clear up operation it's now being used for training by teams from many different countries. Jacob Simonek from the national luge team of Slovakia practices in Sarajevo regularly.\"So we are travelling here almost two times a year, every year. I think it's a pretty good track for practice and training, but it's bit old and bit destroyed after war. So, it's a bit bumpy, but pretty good for training,\" he says. Omanovic and his team mates could only approach the Trebevic track after mine removal experts cleared its entire length of unexploded ordnance.\"This track was destroyed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and what we are trying to do here is to fix it up the best we can. The track is somewhat refurbished, and now it's being used for summer training. Our goal is to make it ready for winter training, so we can organise world class competitions. We want to make it into calendar of world's competitions,\" says luge enthusiast, Amar Plasto. Omanovic adds \"We have collected all our personal money and we bought the tools, equipment and then we went to the track and started cleaning. We had to clean up the debris around the track, we weren't able to even approach the track. There was trash, debris, mud and even trees were growing from the inside of the track. We managed to fix that up, clean it up. Our wish was to make the track ready for our Bosnian national team, to practice there.\"Initially the team hoped to clean up the facilities in order to have somewhere to train. But after investing their own time and money their efforts are paying off in ways they would never have imagined - other teams are now keen to use the facilities too. Omanovic was first approached by colleagues from Slovakia. He told them the facility lacked locker rooms, timing sensors and even toilets. However, the Slovaks insisted that the Sarajevo track was among the best of the nine tracks available around the world for summer training. Training on wheels the teams can achieve a speed of 130 kilometres per hour. \"Some time later, we had the Polish team come, then the Turkish national team, Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian, so it became a regional centre. All these teams want to make their competitors ready for the season. It's easier for them to go to Germany and train there, because Germans have their tracks always ready, but the thing is that only this Sarajevo track provides full speed even in the summer days. The whole point of training in the summer is that competitors are made ready for winter speed on pure ice.\" says Omanovic.On the other end of town the Mount Igman ski-jump facilities are just shadows of what they used to be. Mount Igman was the location of a UN base during the 1992-1995 war and was a site of fierce fighting.Still, the former ski jumper Selver Merdanovic is trying to restore at least the two small ones - at 25 and 45 metres high.He wants to enable the 15 children from his club to practice here. Reviving the 70 and 90 metre high slopes is still just a distant dream, but like the luge team, Merdanovic's aims are high. \"I wish to return these jumps to this place, this discipline, this sport to Bosnia Hercegovina. We deserve it. The citizens of Bosnia deserve it too. My only wish is that I see, once again, ski jumping competition here in Sarajevo and in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\"Merdanovic says he wants returning ski jumping to Bosnia to be his legacy. Doing so via this site will take determination and dedication, but the success of the luge track is giving the sportsmen and women here hope that one day the former Olympic facilities will be fully restored to their former glory. Trebevic mountain, Bosnia, 13 September 20161. Various luge training, Slovak team members sliding on bob track2. Amar Plasto, luge enthusiast walking on ruined bob track3. Slovak national luge team unloading equipment4. Slovak team members walking up the bob track5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Simonek, Slovak luge team member:\"So we are travelling here almost two times a year, every year. I think it's a pretty good track for the practicing and training, but it's bit old and bit destroyed after war. So, it's a bit bumpy, but pretty good for the training.\"6. Bob track covered in graffiti 7. Various of luge training 8 . Bomb shell hole in the track9. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amar Plasto, luge enthusiast:\"This track was destroyed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and what we are trying to do here is to fix it up the best we can. The track is somewhat refurbished, and now it's being used for summer training. Our goal is to make it ready for winter training, so we can organise world class competitions. We want to make it into calendar of world's competitions.\"10. Slovak team practice on track11. Man walking past the graffiti on the bob track12. Close sign on t-shirt reading (English) \"Remember Sarajevo - Still Alive\"13. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Senad Omanovic, chairman of Bosnian bob and luge federation:\"We have collected all our personal money and we bought the tools, equipment and then we went to the track and started cleaning. We had to clean up the debris around the track, we weren't able to even approach the track. There was trash, debris, mud and even trees were growing from the inside of the track. We managed to fix that up, clean it up. Our wish was to make the track ready for our Bosnian national team, to practice there.\"14. Pan bob track15. Luge next to track16. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Senad Omanovic, chairman of Bosnian bob and luge federation:\"Some time later, we had the Polish team come, then the Turkish national team, Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian, so it became a regional centre. All these teams want to make their competitors ready for the season. It's easier for them to go to Germany and train there, because Germans have their tracks always ready, but the thing is that only this Sarajevo track provides full speed even in the summer days. The whole point of training in the summer is that competitors are made ready for winter speed on pure ice.\"Igman mountain, Bosnia,  15 September 201617. UN sign on the building of Igman Ski jumps building (Mount Igman was the location of the UN base during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia)18. Two ski jump runs 19. Ski jump runs20. Selver Merdanovic, former Bosnian ski jumping champion walking up the track21. Selver Merdanovic walking through a destroyed facility22. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Selver Merdanovic, former Ski jumping champion of Bosnia:\"I wish to return these jumps to this place, this discipline, this sport to . We deserve it. The citizens of Bosnia deserve it too. My only wish is that I see, once again, ski jumping competition here in Sarajevo and in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\"23. Merdanovic explains the technique of ski jumping24. Pan from 1984 Winter Olympic sign to Ski Jumping facility Bjelasnica mountain, Bosnia, 1 October 201625. Destroyed downhill start position, barbed wire in front of it, pan to Sarajevo in distance26. Tourists at destroyed downhill trackJahorina mountain, Bosnia,  1 October 201627. Destroyed women's slalom starting position, people on top of it28. People collecting garbage around at the slalom track29. Various herd of wild horses at slalom track30. 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