‘A day we believed we would live again’ – remembering the 1996 Sarajevo Solidarity Athletics Meeting

For nearly four years in the early 1990s, residents of Sarajevo, the host city of the 1984 Winter Olympics, were subjected to daily shelling and sniper fire by Bosnian Serb forces, positioned in the hills surrounding the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, killing 13,952 people. Thousands were children. Published originally on WorldAthletics.org for this year’s… Continue reading