ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The head of the IOC is urging the world's top golfers to ditch the luxury hotels and "share the Olympic spirit" by staying in the athletes' village when the sport returns to the Olympic program in 2016.
"Because if they don't," IOC President Thomas Bach said, "afterward, they will regret it."
To prove his point, Bach recalled the case of the U.S. men's basketball team — the so-called Dream Team — "renting whole floors of hotels" during the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, instead of staying in the village.
"We don't intend to make a whole lot of friends here," U.