preliminaries

Last week he ran a personal best of 15:03 at the preliminaries, so he put together back-to-back weeks reaching peak form.

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.