"I'm devastated, to be honest, because I had the medal," said Congost, who was born with a degenerative hereditary eye disease.
"It was a reflex act of any human, to hold on to a person who is falling next to you. But they say that I have let go of the rope for a second and since I have let it go, that's it, there is no turning back. I don't understand that."
"It's not for cheating, it's not for dragging down an athlete. I am left with nothing. I can't find any explanation for it and it seems so unfair and so surreal, really."
"I wasn't running for a time, only for a medal," El Idrissi said. "I wasn't aiming to get the world record, just to get the gold, and now I have both."
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