The Bosnian man restoring his beloved luge track

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In 1984 the Winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo, in what was then Yugoslavia. A centrepiece of the games was a state-of-the-art luge, bobsledding and skeleton track on the towering Mount Trebevic. Within a decade, the country was in the grips of a bloody conflict. During the Bosnian War, the Olympic luge track was used as a trench and was pierced by bullet holes and explosions. Afterwards, the track was in ruins, overgrown, and covered in graffiti, but one man in Sarajevo, Senad Omanovic, is determined to fix the track and restore it to the glory of the 1984 Winter Olympics. Image: Senad Omanovic hurtling down a luge track Credit Senad Omanovic