Rubbing their noses in it.

Greece’s current dire financial condition has its source in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens that cost the country almost 10 billion Evros. The IOC thought it apt to rub the Greeks noses in the fact by hosting the torch lighting ceremony in the Temple of Hera – in ruins just like their economy - and using costumes worn in the very first Star Trek TV series. Apparently 7,342,764 thousand Greeks applied for the handful of pretend priestesses and heralds that were legally required to be present while the Argos value Olympic Torch (12.99) was lit by the sun’s rays using a parabolic mirror (50% off if bought with torch).

The original Ancient Greece Empire had already collapsed a few thousand years earlier due to the cost of hosting the very first Olympic Games ever in 776 BC.