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Devers, Dragila hold centre-stage
SACRAMENTO (CALIFORNIA),
JULY 19.
Veterans Gail Devers and Stacy Dragila were the stars on the last day of the U.S. Olympic track and field trials that had mostly been a showcase for teenagers, collegians and other first-time Olympians.
The 37-year-old Devers became just the third U.S. track and field athlete — after Carl Lewis and Willye White — to make her fifth Olympic team, winning the 100m hurdles by less than the length of her trademark fingernails.
Dragila, the defending Olympic champion, won the women's pole vault but failed in three attempts to break the world record. She missed at 4.89m, which would have topped Svetlana Feofanova's mark of 4.88m set earlier this month.
But there were still plenty of triumphs on Sunday for the younger generation. Allyson Felix (18) won the women's 200m and Muna Lee (22) was second. Shawn Crawford (26) took the men's 200 and Justin Gatlin, (22) was second. Crawford and Gatlin also will run the 100m at the Athens Games. . — AP
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