Pools of blood. Bodies of the innocent. Wailing relatives. The television pictures from their shattered homeland are gruesome.
Igor Boras leans forward in his soft, blue chair and stares at the victims' names on the screen."Thanks, God, I don't know any of them," he says quietly, "but they are people. They are people."
Two days earlier, he lived 100 yards from the Sarajevo marketplace where a shell killed 68 people Saturday. Now he is at the Winter Olympics after a dangerous journey to the Sarajevo airport.
With other members of Bosnia's bobsled and luge teams - two Serbs, two Muslims and a Croat - he sat in the comfort of a lounge at the athletes' village Sunday.
"We're all mixed," Verona Marjanovic says of the harmonious team. "It feels great. That's all we want to do. We want to live together."
They let out their anger, frustration and distress.
"I feel pain in my stomach," Nizar Zaciragic says as the screen shows a victim being dragged from the marketplace. "I feel helpless and humiliated."
"I feel a lot of revenge. I want to make it even," says Marjanovic, more serious than her 20 years would suggest. "If I'm not an athlete, I could have been in the marketplace. I could have been killed.
Subdued lighting creates a peaceful mood for the athletes from a city where there is little electricity. The nearby dining room serves meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, milk and other foods. In Sarajevo, thousands go hungry.
Boras was shocked by the bounty when he went for his first meal at the Olympics.
"When I see how much food, I leave my plate and go out for a walk and come back later," he said.
Outside, there is a winter postcard. Everywhere there are pristine piles of snow and countless evergreens, their needles covered with white. It is a world away from the horror back home.
"It seems to me like I had an operation and they gave me anesthesia," Zaciragic said. "Then I woke up here."
The athletes are happy to be away but their thoughts are still in Sarajevo. A Sunday workout was canceled. The tragedy distracts them from their training.
"I'm fighting against that, but every time I start to think about Sarajevo and Bosnia it brings me down," says Marjanovic. Her father is a Serb, her mother a Croat and other relatives are Muslim.
Boras is a Croat. Zaciragic is a Muslim.
The four-man bobsled team probably won't finish in the top 20. Marjanovic doesn't expect to do well in the luge.
But being at the Olympics gives Boras a chance to fulfill a goal.
"I want to show the world that we are normal, that we are not savages," he said. "There are savage people on the hills" where the shell came from.
Zaciragic, a 26-year-old economist, arrived in Lillehammer a week ago after competing in Italy. Marjanovic came Saturday by boat from Germany, where she trained. Sunday was the first anniversary of her departure from Sarajevo.
Boras barely made it.
At Friday morning mass at the seminary where he lived - and where the marketplace is visible from the second floor - he was heartened by the words of friends and family.
"They pray for me," he said. "Then they say goodbye."
An armored personnel carrier took him to the airport. He hurried to a United Nations plane that dropped off food and remained for just 15 minutes, its engines running, to pick up 10 people.
Then he flew to Ancona, Italy, took a train to Milan and flew to Oslo where he learned of the shelling. A car took him north to Lillehammer. His parents and girlfriend live in Sarajevo. He doesn't plan to return.
"It's very difficult," said Boras, whose 26th birthday is Thursday. "The only wish of my mother is that she see my back, that I'm getting out. She doesn't want to see me without legs, without hands."
"Sarajevo is like the Middle Ages," Boras said. "There is no water, there is no gas, there is no electricity, there is no television."