The devastated bobsled track on the Trebevic Mountain above Bosnia's capital could get back its old Olympic glory if the plans for its reconstruction discussed on Thursday between delegations of Sarajevo and Catalonia are implemented.

“This is a unique bobsled track in the world, only in Sarajevo a bobsled track is so close to the city and it has an amazing view,” Kenan Magoda, general manager of the public enterprise ‘ZOI 84’, the legal successor of the site, said following the meeting with Catalonian delegation.

Trebevic bobsled track was built in 1982, two years before the city hosted Winter Olympic Games in 1984, but prior to this event, it hosted the 1983 European Bobsleigh Championship.

The track was severely damaged during the 1992-95 Bosnian war and has remained abandoned since then for the most of the time, except when hosting graffiti painting and extreme cycling competitions.

Over two decades after the war ended, the city authorities decided it was the time to return the old shine to the once-famous sport site.

“'ZOI 84’ as the legal successor of the Trebevic bobsled track is entering new projects, with the help of Sarajevo Canton Government. The interest of the Government of Catalonia in taking the part proves that this is a very significant project,” said ‘ZOI 84’ pointing out that both the cantonal and city authorities in Sarajevo stand united in the intention to recover the famous Trebevic track.

Eric Hauck, Catalonia's envoy for the Southeast Europe region, said he wanted to help this project for some time but that only now he recognised the right moment and the quality of those with whom he talked on this matter.

The visit to Sarajevo was very emotional for Hauck, as his close friend, a journalist, died during the siege in 1992.