Torch Relay
The torch relay for the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic games started in Olympia and then proceeded by airplane to Dubrovnik. The total distance of the torch relay through Yugoslavia was 5,289 km (plus 2,879 km of local routes). There were two main routes – one in the west (Split – Ljubljana – Zagreb – Sarajevo with 2,602km of length) and the other in the east (Skopje – Novi Sad – Belgrade – Sarajevo with 2,687km of length). The final torchbearer, from a total of 1600, was figure skater Sanda Dubravčić, who received the torch from skier Bojan Križaj. Today one of the two original torches is in Slovenia in a private collection in Žalec. Also 20 more Torches are in Greece owned by individual athletes, who were the torchbearers from Ancient Olympia to the nearby military airport and from Athens Domestic Airport to the Panathinaikon Stadium where the Ceremony of handing over the Olympic Flame to the Sarajevo Olympic Games Committee occurred.
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