Two-time Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene is far from finished at the age of 27.

In fact, the former Kansas City Schlagle standout, who will run the Kansas Relays 800 relay with Hudson Smith International track teammates Jon Drummond, Kaaron Conwright and Larry Wade at 7:15 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium, already has his eye on the 2004 Games in Greece.

“I think about it, but I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself,” said Greene. He won the 100 and ran on the winning U.S. 400 relay team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. “I don’t want to look past a lot of things right in front of me.”

Like the 2002 Kansas Relays.

“It’s great to come back and run the Relays,” Greene said. “This is where I grew up. This is the closest I can get to running at home. I want to come back and put on another show. It’ll be a very impressive show. You have to come out and watch and see what happens.”

Greene has a personal best/world record clocking of 9.79 in his specialty  the 100 meters.

“I am a person who doesn’t settle for less. I am looking for perfection. Until I find perfection, I will not quit trying,” Greene said.

Greene’s coach, John Smith, is constantly amazed at the effort the 5-foot-9 Greene puts in at practice.

“He is not sitting down and resting on his laurels,” Smith said. “Maurice had an interesting day at practice the other day. He fertilized the lawn,” he added of the athlete vomiting because of such intense effort. “He is not afraid to go there, to put in the effort every single day.

“I told him, ‘If you run under 9.7 (in 100), that’s when you can retire.’ “

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Wichita State’s Koya Webb is first-day leader in the Relays heptathlon with 3,161 points. Oklahoma’s Chaundra Allard is second at 2,836. Pat Pyle of Kansas State leads the decathlon with 3,758 points. Wayne Scott of Oral Roberts is second at 3,743.