Recognition for the successful organization of EYOF Sarajevo and East Sarajevo during the General Assembly of ANOC

Today (October 17, 2019), a session of the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees of the World (ANOC) was held, during which the President of the European Olympic Committee, Mr. Janez Kocijančič, submitted a report on the work of the EOC in 2019. At the very beginning of his presentation, he referred to the recently held EYOF in Sarajevo and East Sarajevo, with the words: "35 years since the Olympic Games were held in Sarajevo, the Olympic flame has returned to this city.

After the Olympic Games, a terrible war took place in which many people lost their lives and many were displaced. Then came EYOF Sarajevo and East Sarajevo, where the opening ceremony was held at the Koševo Olympic Stadium with 30,000 spectators in the stadium and 10,000 spectators who stayed out of the stadium with the desire to attend the opening ceremony. What does that mean!?! People wanted to tell themselves, their leaders, the Olympic Movement and the whole world that they are oversaturated with animosities, hatred and separations and that they want to go the way the sport goes. That was a strong message for all of us. Later we enjoyed a well-organized EYOF, and that was a great encouragement for all of us in the Olympic Movement."