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Think fast: US sprinters still expect Bolt at Olympics

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — It's a sport built on speed, and at U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials on Saturday, sprinters wasted no time drawing conclusions about Usain Bolt's summertime itinerary.

The consensus: He'll be in Rio.

For the second straight day, the Jamaican sprinter's hamstring was Topic No. 1 in the track world. If Bolt is seriously hurt, the entire Olympics will take on a new perspective, whether it's Bolt at less-than-full strength or — still unthinkable at this point — absent altogether.

Not that anyone going through preliminary rounds in Eugene was worried about that.