preliminaries

He focused instead on mental preparation, which might explain his confidence after the lackluster preliminaries.

It didn't bode well in Seoul when, during a routine dive during the preliminaries, he hit his head on the board — a potentially catastrophic injury that killed a fellow diver five years before.

Specifically, maybe check out the preliminaries of the 100 meters at 6:10 p.m. on Thursday and the finals around 11:10 a.m. on Saturday.

If the preliminaries are any indication, Jordan Coleman will be one to watch in next Friday’s City Section track and field championships at El Camino College.

The Southern Section held its track and field preliminaries at four sites around Southern California on Saturday, and sophomore Brian Bonner of Valencia High continued his rise to prominence.