U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Jones advances to 100 semifinal

The Olympic champion had no smiles or words for fans.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Marion Jones finished second in her quarterfinal heat of the women's 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials Friday night, good enough to advance to today's semifinal but far from her dominating form of past years.
Jones began her bid for a spot on the U.S. squad for the Athens Games by finishing behind LaTasha Colander in the opening-round heat.
Jones, who dominated the event in the late 1990s and is the reigning Olympic champion, finished in 11.38 seconds.
Jones, who remains under investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, is known for her radiant smile and bubbly personality.
But she remained serious throughout and after Friday's race, and left the track without saying a word to fans or reporters.
Also qualifying for today's semifinals was Chryste Gaines, one of four sprinters who face a lifetime ban after being charged with steroid use. Her case is awaiting arbitration by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The fastest quarterfinal time was turned in by NCAA champion Lauryn Williams, a junior at Miami, who finished in 11.14.
Not the same
Just about everything has changed for Jones since she last visited Sacramento, for the 2000 Olympic trials.
Back then, she began her quest for a record five gold medals at the Sydney Games by winning her quarterfinal heat in 10.92. She routinely won races by large margins in those days.
When she won an unprecedented five medals in Sydney, three gold, she confirmed her status as track and field's reigning queen.
Now, she is dogged by allegations of drug use -- though she repeatedly has denied using performance-enhancing drugs. And her talk of trying to go for five Olympic medals again this summer is much more muted than in 2000.
A lot of other things have changed in her life in the past four years.
She was married to shot putter C.J. Hunter in 2000, the year he tested positive four times for steroids.
Now she's divorced from Hunter, and has a 1-year-old son with Tim Montgomery, the world's fastest man and one of the four sprinters charged by USADA with steroid use.
Today, Montgomery begins his bid for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. He and Gaines won a small victory Friday when a federal judge in San Francisco rejected USADA's bid to review sealed grand jury testimony from the four sprinters charged with using performance-enhancing drugs.
Montgomery, Gaines, Alvin Harrison and Michelle Collins all testified before the grand jury that ultimately indicted four men connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
Other events
In the men's pole vault, a couple of top contenders failed to make it out of the preliminary round.
Jeff Hartwig is the American record-holder in the men's pole vault and a four-time national champion. But bad things seem to happen to Hartwig when the Olympics approach.
Hartwig missed out on a chance for the Athens Games when he failed to clear any of his attempts Friday. He also failed to make it out of the qualifying round at the Olympic trials in 2000.
"I said after 2000 I'll never let myself be that disappointed again," said Hartwig, who finished 11th at the 1996 Olympics. "This is par for the course for me at these kinds of meets."
Also failing to qualify for Sunday's final was Lawrence Johnson, the reigning Olympic silver medalist. Reaching the final were Toby Stevenson, who has the best vault in the world this year, and defending Olympic champion Nick Hysong.