EUGENE, Oregon – Glen Rupp won his second title of the US Olympic Track and Field Trials, adding the 5,000 meters crown to his 10,000 triumph Thursday and shattering the meet record of legend Steve Prefontaine. And two African-born standouts, former world champion and two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat and 2008 US flag bearer Lopez Lomong, also booked berths in London, where host-nation hero and reigning world champion Mo Farah awaits. Rupp outfought Lagat in the final 100 meters to win win 13mins 22.67secs, breaking the 40-year-old meet record of 13:22.80 set by the late Prefontaine, an icon in track-mad Eugene who died at age 24 in a 1975 car crash. Lagat was second in 13:22.82 with Lomong third in 13:24.47, holding off Andrew Bumbalough for the last Olympic berth. Rupp will double in the 10,000 after winning that event on the opening night of the meet, which continues through Sunday. Farah, who won his second European title in a row Wednesday, has this year's world-best time of 12:56.98 from a Diamond League victory at Eugene earlier this month. Rupp finished third in the same race. Sanya Richards-Ross, trying for a 200-400 Olympic double, and Carmelita Jeter and Tianna Madison, hoping for a 100-200 double in London, qualified comfortably for Friday's semifinals. Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh, still deadlocked for third and the last Olympic spot at 100m, advanced as well but made no comment about the dispute, which will not be settled until after Sunday's 200 final. Brad Walker, the 2007 world champion, won the men's pole vault title by clearing 5.67m while Derek Miles, fourth at the 2008 Olympics, reached London by finishing fourth at 5.60. Miles made the US team only after Scott Roth failed on three tries at the Olympic standard of 5.72. Morgan Uceny, last year's Diamond League champion, led women's 1,500 semifinal qualifiers in 4:14.07 while Jill Camarena-Williams, third at last year's worlds, led women's shot put finalists with an effort of 19.30m. Bolt, Blake ease through Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake easily won their heats Thursday night to qualify for the 100-meter semifinals at the Jamaican Olympic Athletic Trials. Reigning world champion Blake was the fastest of the quarterfinalists with a time of 10.00 seconds. Bolt, the Olympic champion and world record holder in the 100m, also won his quarterfinal by easing to a 10.06. Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell were the fastest finishers in the third quarterfinal as both were credited with a time of 10.19. The last quarter-final was won by Michael Frater who finished in 10.09. The top three finishers in the final will punch their tickets to the London Games. On the women's side, the Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the former world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and Olympic silver medalist Kerron Stewart will battle in the 100m. Nearly 400 athletes are competing for about 60 berths in London in what could be the largest Jamaican athletics delegation ever sent to an Olympics. — Agencies
