Olympics Games: Olympic Torch and Austerity Measures

olympics games: Unfortunately, Greece lost, according to Huffington Post Canada. No, not the Olympics themselves -- they ranked 15th overall, including a half-dozen gold medals -- but Greece lost the gamble that hosting the Olympics Games would benefit the nation and its citizens. Twelve summers ago, the Olympic torch was lit in Athens, marking the glorious return of the international games to their original birthplace. And they lost big. The country became a veritable war zone in reaction to severe austerity measures announced by the government to reign in the country debt crisis. By 2010, somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 Greeks were rioting in the streets -- and three people lost their lives after protestors threw petrol bombs at a bank, burning it to the ground. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.