Nate Abbott
City In the Hills, Freeskier Magazine
Igman Ski Jumps, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Trick: 900 tail grab. City In the Hills. October 2014. American skier Joss Christensen won the Olympic gold medal in slopestyle skiing during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. About a month later he accompanied me to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina to ski around the sites that had hosted the Winter Olympics in 1984. It was an opportunity for us to reflect on Joss’s future personally as well as skiing’s progression as a sport and the economic and political implications for Sochi as the host city, all within the context of Sarajevo and its 30 year rollercoaster ride since the Olympics. This image was made on the podium at the ski jumping venue from 1984, which was used for executions during the Bosnian War. It still bears the scars of that violence.
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