Sunday, July 23 Devers sets American hurdles mark
	Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gail Devers has some unfinished Olympic business. She owns two gold medals, but neither are in the event that is her best. She won the 100 meters in Barcelona and Atlanta. Her victory in the 100-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Sunday, in an American record 12.33 seconds, made her the fourth-fastest ever in the event. Gail Devers' winning time of 12.45 was four-hundredths of a second faster than the American record she set last year at the world championships. "To be honest, coming in, I knew the 100 hurdles was my last chance to be on the team," Devers said. "My goal was to break the American record on American soil. Every time I've broken it, I've been in Europe somewhere." Her time was four-hundredths of a second faster than the American record she set last year at the world championships in Seville, Spain. "The fans here were great," she said of the capacity crowd of 24,000. "They helped me get my head in the hurdles." Devers overcame a rare thyroid disease for a fabulous career. She's won the 100 hurdles three times at the world championships. In 1992 in Barcelona, she was leading in the hurdle finals but fell over the last hurdle and finished fifth. Devers was fourth in the 100 hurdles four years ago at the Atlanta Games. She said she got off to a good start in Sunday's finals. "I have no clue about the middle," she said, "and at the end I hit a hurdle, but I wasn't going down. I'm very pleased with the time -- 33 years old and running 12.33. Godina makes team in discus John Godina, who missed out on making the Olympic team in his best event, the shot put, will make it after finishing second in the discus Sunday. "It's kind of bittersweet to qualify in one event and not the other," said Godina, the Olympic silver medalist in the shot put four years ago. "But if you don't get it in the first event, getting the other is OK." Godina finished fourth in the shot put trials in one of the toughest competitions in the event ever. The top three all threw over 70 feet. "It took me about a day to get over it," he said. "But I would have felt bad longer if I'd performed badly. The three guys who made the team all had personal bests. You can't dwell on that forever." Relay top seven selected The top seven finishers in the 100 meters all have agreed to be part of the pool for the 400-meter relay team, U.S. men's coach John Chaplin said. Those seven include the four who ran on the first-place team at last year's world championships -- Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis and Maurice Greene. The exact makeup of the pool won't be determined until early next week, Chaplin said, and it may or may not include those seven who have agreed to run the relay. Chaplin, the former head coach at Washington State, knows that his biggest job will be making sure the highly favored American men win the 400 relay. "If they drop the sticks or run out of the zone or lose the race, I'll be hung in effigy and maybe literally," he said. Coach mulls taking teenager U.S. women's Olympic coach Karen Dennis says she is considering taking 17-year-old Monique Henderson to Sydney as part of the 1,600-meter relay pool, even though she finished last in the 400-meter finals at the trials. "It's quite possible that Monique would get in the pool and get a chance to experience the Olympics in Sydney," Dennis said. "She would gain a lot of valuable experience really as a youngster to participate in the Olympics. But it's not a certainty that Monique will actually run a round."		ALSO SEE Double letdown: Johnson, Greene pull up lame in final Drive for five still alive for Marion Jones Dragila reaches new heights with pole vault record U.S. Track & Field Trials results, Day 8