USC Alumnus Terrence Trammell Wins 110 Crown

Three hurdles with ties to the University of South Carolina made the Olympic US team in the final day of the US Olympic Track and Field Trials.

Terrence Trammell, an alumnus of South Carolina won his first US title by capturing the 110m hurdles crown. South Carolina volunteer coaches Allen Johnson (110 hurdles) and Melissa Morrison (100m hurdles) made the US Olympic team with bronze medals in their respected events.

Trammell ran a personal best 13.09 in his win. The 13.09 is the third fastest time in the world this year (www.uscsports.com). Johnson will now make his third straight Olympic team appearance. Johnson won the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was fourth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics (uscsports.com). Johnson, who has trained at USC and has lived in Irmo for the past eight years has run the fastest time (13.05) this year in the hurdles.

Morrison's bronze medal time of 12.61 was a season-best. Her appearance in Athens will be her second consecutive Olympics. Morrison won the bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and has trained in Columbia the past six years.

According to www.nbcolympics.com the most indepth Olympic broadcast in history is coming Aug. 11-29 to the NBC Universal networks (NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Bravo, Telemundo, NBC HDTV). With NBC featuring action from every sport contested at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens, Greece, the unprecedented 24-hours-per-day broadcast of the Summer Games will consist of 1,210 hours of coverage -- nearly three-times the 441.5 hours from Sydney in 2000 and more than seven-times the 171.5 hours from Atlanta in 1996 (nbcolympics.com).

Over the 17 days of the Games (Aug. 13-29), NBC's coverage will average more than 70 hours per day -- more than produced in total for each Olympics until the 1976 Montreal Games delivered 76.5 hours. The NBC Universal networks will offer more live coverage from Athens than any Olympics in history, domestic or foreign, despite the seven-hour time difference from the Eastern time zone to Athens (nbcolympics.com).