"It was so cool. I got a chance to carry the Bosnian flag at the Opening Ceremony as best qualified athlete. And I was the youngest one by far. "It was so full of people; it was amazing.

Some 8,000 kilometers away, in a village near Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Emin Bektic lives alongside a dozen other elderly people. Jasenova is one of the few villages where Bosniaks and Serbs ...