Nearing the finish line, Kameisha (Bennett) Martin was running out of gas.

"It was basically me thinking, 'Am I going to walk at this point?' " Martin said. "That's how much it took from my body."

Martin didn't walk. Instead, she pushed to a third-place finish in the women's 800-meter final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore., late Monday, June 30. Usually, the top three placers make the Olympic team, which will travel to Beijing next month.

"I put my arms up," Martin said. "Then I looked at the time and said, 'Oh crap.' "

Her time, 2 minutes, 1.2 seconds, didn't meet the Olympic "A" standard of 2 minutes flat, so Martin, a 1999 Meadowdale High School graduate, was ...

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