RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay and Mike Rodgers were almost through parading the American flag around the track — celebrating a bronze medal of all things — when their names flashed on the big board, along with two letters: "DQ."
The smiles — gone.
Those medals — might be gone, too.
This nightmare — it never ends for the U.S. men in sprint relays.
Rodgers and Gatlin were ruled to have passed the baton outside the first passing zone of the men's 4x100 relay won by Usain Bolt and Jamaica. After the disqualification, the bronze went to Canada.