Article: Why track's dark cloud rarely finds the pool Young Michael Phelps is tearing up the swim trials, but do you hear anybody suggesting he might be on the juice?

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- With the U.S. Olympic swim trials wrapping up today and the U.S. Olympic track and field trials ending next weekend, one thing stands out as a difference-maker: drugs.

Here at the Long Beach Aquatic Center, athletes have come and gone in parades of sharkskin suits, goggles and less hair than at a Kojak convention -- but performance-enhancing drugs have scarcely been mentioned.

Just up the road apiece in Sacramento, at Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium, the topic of anabolic steroids and other performance- enhancers has almost knocked the actual events from the docket.

"Welcome to the U.S. Olympic track and field trials," wrote Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke, ...