Editing 1984 Winter Olympics (section)

== Organization ==
=== Organizing ===
[[File:Branko Mikulić (1988).jpg|thumb|right|Chair of the Organizing Committee [[Branko Mikulić]]]]
A provisional organizing committee was created on July 13, 1978, and the final committee with 79 members was formed as April 1980 by the Yugoslav Olympic Committee and the Sarajevo Municipal Assembly. [[Branko Mikulic]], member of the presidency of the central committee of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]], was appointed chairman of the organizing committee. Ahmed Karabegovic was appointed the secretary-general and Anto Sucic, then president of the Sarajevo Municipal Assembly, became the president of the executive committee. The organizing committee included the president of the Yugoslav Olympic committee and representatives of the [[Federal Executive Council (Yugoslavia)|Federal Executive Council]], the League of Communists and the Socialist Alliance of the Working People.<ref>{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|pp=92–93}}</ref><ref name = "Dunkelberger p. 382" />

=== Financial aspects ===
According to the financial results of the Games, the revenues amounted to [[Yugoslav dinar|YUD]] 19.83 billion (approximately {{currency|203|USD}} million) and expenses at YUD 17.3 billion ({{currency|177|USD}} million), a net amount of YUD 2.54 billion ({{currency|26|USD}} million).<ref name = "Organizing committee p. 185">{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|p=185}}</ref> The official report for the games listed the final profit at {{currency|10|USD}} million.<ref>{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|p=183}}</ref>

This was the first time in history that the Winter Olympic Games were organized in a [[communist state]], but the organizers did not hesitate to partner with capitalist companies to finance the Games. The Organizing Committee argued it was not hypocritical because sport must be above political influence. The organizing committee signed 218 contracts and arrangements in Yugoslavia and 459 on the foreign market. This included the sale of television rights, sponsorship, sale of license rights, free delivery of goods and equipment, advertising, donations as well as Olympic coins, lottery and philately. Marketing brought in YUD 4.31 billion on the national market and YUD 9.42 billion on the foreign market, totaling YUD 13.73 billion ({{currency|141.65|USD}} million).<ref>{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|pp=170–172}}</ref><ref name = "Dunkelberger p. 383">{{harvsp | Dunkelberger | 2004|p=383}}</ref> The government also contributed to the financing of the Games: the [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] paid YUD 1.83 billion, the national government of Yugoslavia and the other republics and autonomous regions, YUD 780 million and the city of Sarajevo, YUD 1 billion. From 1982 to the end of 1984, a deduction made from citizens' salaries (0.2% for citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 0.3% for those of Sarajevo) brought in YUD 1.21 billion.<ref>{{harvsp |Organizing committee| 1984|pp=183–184}}</ref>

Building the facilities and purchasing the equipment for the Games cost a total of YUD 8.63 billion. The expenses were listed at 2.26 billion for equipment, 970 million for the Zetra hall, 600 million for the alpine ski slopes, 500 million for the [[Zetra Ice Rink|ice rink]] and the Main Press Center, 560 million for the [[Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track|bobsleigh and luge track]], 400 million for the speed skating track and 340 million for the [[Igman Olympic Jumps|ski jumps]]. The organizing committee also invested YUD 1.65 billion in posts, telegraphs and telephones, the television network, the expansion and modernization of the Sarajevo Airport, the road network, 23 sports centers and other facilities. Preparation and organization costs were listed at YUD 4.51 billion.<ref name = "Organizing committee p. 185" />

=== Transport ===
The region's transport network was developed for the Games. Roads with a total length of 160 kilometers were constructed to improve access to mountain sites from Sarajevo or to link the sites to each other. The city's train station and the [[Sarajevo International Airport]] were renovated, and an international terminal was built.<ref>{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|pp=105–106}}</ref>

Most of the athletes, accompanying persons, officials and visitors arrived in Yugoslavia by regular international flights to [[Zagreb]] and [[Belgrade]] and reached Sarajevo by trains, buses or [[charter flights]] that landed directly on the city.<ref>{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|pp=142–143}}</ref> Spectators were transported to the venues by coaches, rental or personal cars, and minibuses. These options were also used for official transport.<ref>{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|pp=142–145}}</ref>

=== Visual identity ===

The [[emblem]] of the 1984 Winter Olympics was a stylized snowflake which also used the national embroidery motif overhung with the Olympic rings.<ref name = cio /> The [[Olympic mascot|mascot]] for the competition was chosen by readers of Yugoslav newspapers from among six entries. The mascot was a wolf named [[Vučko (mascot)|Vučko]] and created by Slovenian Jože Trobec.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://olympics.time.com/2010/05/21/those-loony-olympic-mascots/slide/vucko-sarajevo-1984/ | title = Those Loony Olympic Mascots | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = March 13, 2012 | access-date= October 18, 2014}}</ref>