{"id":12771,"date":"2015-07-15T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12771"},"modified":"2015-07-15T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T10:40:12","slug":"the-2004-olympics-and-the-crisis-four-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-2004-olympics-and-the-crisis-four-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2004 Olympics And The Crisis Four Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/071415_1147_The2004Olym1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a while there it was unclear if we would ever be able to eat Greek yogurt again. But it seems like the Eurozone has figured out a deal, and Greece will stay in the European Union. Peter Berlin took a look at the role that being the host of the 2004 Olympics played in contributing to Greece&#8217;s current financial crisis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The games are thought to have cost Greece \u20ac7 billion, and the country continues to pay the debt from those games.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile the International Olympic Committee made close to $1 billion from the event.<\/li>\n<li>The IOC seems reluctant to award the games to countries that do things affordably.<\/li>\n<li>One solution would be to make a country \u2013 probably Greece since the Olympics originated there \u2013 a permanent host of the games.<\/li>\n<li>As Greece still has all the facilities from the 2004 games which largely sit unused, it would be a boost to the local economy, and would save other countries from expensive construction projects.<\/li>\n<li>The 2016 games in Rio, for example, are expected to cost \u20ac13.2 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/how-the-olympics-rotted-greece\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/how-the-olympics-rotted-greece\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while there it was unclear if we would ever be able to eat Greek yogurt again. But it seems like the Eurozone has figured out a deal, and Greece will stay in the European Union. Peter Berlin took a look at the role that being the host of the 2004 Olympics played in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/071415_1147_The2004Olym1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12773,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12771\/revisions\/12773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}