{"id":245762,"date":"2004-08-28T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/08\/the-bahamas-top-olympic-nation"},"modified":"2004-08-28T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T03:25:02","slug":"the-bahamas-top-olympic-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/08\/the-bahamas-top-olympic-nation","title":{"rendered":"The Bahamas:  Top Olympic Nation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion, Debbie Ferguson was the first to make the observation, only minutes after collecting her Bronze in the women&#8217;s 200 metre event.  But it took a clever columnist, Mike Wise (his name says it all) from the Washington Post, to bring it to the world&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Bahamas has won more medals, per capita, than any nation competing in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The Bahamians are really king of the hill. Yes, it turns out, due to a compilation by my friend at Newsday, Chuck Culpepper, Bahamas leads in the world&#8217;s all-important per capita medal race,&#8221;  Wise reveals in a column titled, &#8220;Forget U.S. Team; Bahamas Rules&#8221;, published on August 27, 2004. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The little hamlet of a Caribbean nation, famous for the luxurious and kitschy Atlantis Hotel&#8230; has won a medal for every 149,848 people, &#8221;  he adds.<\/p>\n<p>\nRead Mike&#8217;s complete article on <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A36690-2004Aug26.html >The Washington Post website<\/a>.  You have to register to read the articles, but it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian athletes have won two Olympic medals for a nation of only 300,000 people, making it the leader per capita in Olympic medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}