{"id":11001,"date":"2014-05-29T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2014-05-29T00:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T04:41:35","slug":"the-authoritarian-future-of-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-authoritarian-future-of-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Authoritarian Future Of The Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/052914_0426_TheAuthorit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tony Manfred took a look at why the future of The Olympics might be a lot more authoritarian.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Event organizers usually over-estimate the benefits of hosting The Olympics while the cost of the games invariably go over-budget.<\/li>\n<li>As a result of this voters are increasingly rejecting the idea of hosting the games in their city.<\/li>\n<li>A referendum in Poland led to the city withdrawing its application to hold the 2022 Winter Games, as did a vote in Germany.<\/li>\n<li>Other countries are either planning to, or have already, withdrawn their candidacy to be hosts.<\/li>\n<li>The remaining serious contenders are from Kazakhstan and China.<\/li>\n<li>They are, unsurprisingly, authoritarian countries that don&#8217;t have to pay attention to taxpayer concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2022-olympics-host-cities-2014-5?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2022-olympics-host-cities-2014-5?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Manfred took a look at why the future of The Olympics might be a lot more authoritarian. Event organizers usually over-estimate the benefits of hosting The Olympics while the cost of the games invariably go over-budget. As a result of this voters are increasingly rejecting the idea of hosting the games in their city. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/052914_0426_TheAuthorit1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11006,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}