SACRAMENTO - Superstars Maurice Greene and Marion Jones roared from behind to win 100m races and make their first Olympic teams yesterday at the US athletics trials that also produced the two best shotputs of the year.
World recordholder Greene, who entered a post-race news conference singing, "I made the Olympic team," needed 80m to wrest control of the men's event, clocking 10.01s into a headwind of 1.7m a second.
Little-known Curtis Johnson and Olympian Jon Drummond, two of Greene's training mates, rounded out the American 100m team for Sydney with times of 10.066s and 10.070s, respectively.
In the women's 100m, world champion Jones pulled ahead midway and went on to win in 10.88s, the second-fastest time in the world this year. Arch-rival Inger Miller was second in 11.05s. Two-time Olympic champion Gail Devers failed to make the team, finishing fifth in 11.146s.
Jones' husband, C.J. Hunter, also made the team, finishing second to former world junior champion Adam Nelson in the shotput. Nelson became the ninth-best shotputter of all time with a heave of 22.12m after Bloom had thrown a stunning 21.61m. That left it up to Hunter, who hit 21.87m.
- REUTERS
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