DNFUSA
1st leg, Mardy SCALES:
"I just gave it to Leonard (SCOTT) and somehow it just slipped out of his hands. I was coming around the curve pretty good, we even made a pretty good exchange, but then the baton was sort of slippery, and it just slipped out of his hand. I kind of ran up on him, but we made the exchange."
"We just wanted to get the baton around the track. We knew we had that heat won. We worked on it a lot in practice. We have been here for three weeks. We haven't missed one hand-off. We do not shout 'stick' or anything, we just do not do that. I have known for some time that I would be running, but we did not know who would have ran tomorrow though."
3rd leg, Tyson GAY:
"I didn't get a medal from the individual event so I thought I would get my medal in the relay. With the team we had I think we could have run the world record."
"We have practiced the exchanges enough. It was not that. That was a fundamental mistake. These things just happen."
"To me it looked as if Leonard (SCOTT) had it already and then he tried to grab it better when the baton slipped."
"I think somewhere you have to make a descision to pick the team that's going to run and stick with it until the end."
4th leg, Maurice GREENE:
"I just came here for a rainy vacation I guess. It looked like Leonard (SCOTT) had it, and when he pulled it away it just slipped out of his hand. The baton did seem a little slippery today, no excuses, we just did not get the job done."
"I can't say what went through my mind really, but I just wanted to know what happened. The US never practices enough, but everything felt good, everything looked good, we just did it a little while ago, came out here and did not do as well as we thought."
"It is real simple to pass a stick. You just have to get people in there who know what they are doing. People make it harder than it seems. He (SCOTT) had the stick, it just slipped out of his hand, that is the bottom line. They knew what they were doing, if you look at it, Mardy (SCALES) put it in Leonard's (SCOTT) hand, and then it just slipped out of both of their hands."
