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A total of six gold medals will be given out Saturday, including in the heptathlon, where Ennis holds a 184-point lead over Austra Skujyte of Lithuania, and the men's 10,000 meters, where Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele will battle it out with Britain's Mo Farah and Galen Rupp of Portland, Ore.
The marquee race will be the women's 100, where Fraser-Pryce led a Jamaican sweep in Beijing and the Americans will try to flip the script this time -- or at least get in on a little bit of the celebration.
The top candidate will be Jeter, who won her heat by nearly half a second.
"I just had to come out and execute, like my coach wanted me to do," Jeter said. "I still have two more rounds to go. Everybody's going to definitely be running their hearts out tomorrow."
Other contenders will include Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria, who had the second-fastest heat time, 10.93, and was one of eight women in the night's seven heats to record a personal best. Okagbare finished ahead of Tiana Madison, of Sanford, Fla., who clocked 10.97.
"Oh, yeah, sub-11 is always fun," Madison said.
Allyson Felix finished in 11.01, but that was good enough to win her heat, and Veronica Campbell-Brown, who has beaten Felix in the last two Olympic 200s, won her 100 heat in 10.94.
All these fast times left sprinters such as Melissa Breen of Australia on the outside looking in. In 2008, her time of 11.34 seconds would have easily moved her out of the first round and might have gotten her into the semifinals, as well. On this day, she was one-and-done, but impressed by what she saw.
"Those girls," Breen said, "are ridiculously fast."
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