Do Olympic stadiums get abandoned?

Some Olympic villages have been converted to university housing developments, private residences, and shopping plazas. Others, however, have fallen into disarray, forever frozen in time. Below, browse through some of the most hauntingly beautiful photos of abandoned Olympic venues from decades past.

What abandoned Olympic venues?

Below are 20 former Olympic venues that once held the world’s attention, but have heartbreakingly been abandoned.

• Olympic Village. Berlin, 1936.
• Ski Jump Tower. Cortina D’ampezzo, 1956.
• Ski Jump Tower.
• Olympic Stadium Train Stop.
• Soviet Venue.
• Jesse Robinson Olympic Park.
• Mount Trebevic Bobsled Course.
• Ski Jump at Mount Igman.

What did Sarajevo do for the Winter Olympics?

Restaurant During the 1984 Winter Olympics. Skenderija was constructed as a cultural and sport center in 1969 and later used for the 1984 Winter Olympics. Mount Igman was home to the alpine, Nordic and ski jumping events of the XIV Winter Olympics. Igman Olympic Jumps from the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics on Mount Igman.

Are there any abandoned Olympic sites in Sarajevo?

In Sarajevo, however, former Olympic structures tell more than a forgotten event. Riddled with bullet holes and covered with graffiti, the Sarajevo Olympic structures tell a tale of terrible conflict.

Where was the ski jumping at the Olympics?

Mount Igman was home to the alpine, Nordic and ski jumping events of the XIV Winter Olympics. (Courtesy of Flickr user aidaweb101) Igman Olympic Jumps from the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics on Mount Igman. (Xe0us via Wikimedia)

Where was the bobsled race in Sarajevo in 1984?

The 1984 Sarajevo bobsled run on Mount Trebević as it is now. The three-kilometer-long run winds its way down through the woods to a bombed-out spectator area below. The remains of a bombed-out building in central Sarajevo. In the background is an entire hill dedicated to victims of the war. The finish of the bobsled run on Mount Trebević.