U.S. diving trials: Dumais is the man

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It looks like Olympian Troy Dumais will be headed to Beijing, after declaring his goal is ‘gold or go home.’ He had a dominating performance in the semifinals of the three-meter springboard tonight at Indianapolis.

Dumais, a Ventura native, had a 30-point lead at the start because of his international success and then scored perfect 10s on three of his six dives for a total of 1038.30 points.

Chris Colwill was second at 961.00 and, Jevon Tarantino, was third at 893.65.

Beijing would be the third Olympics for the 28-year-old Dumais, who graduated from the University of Texas.

He has yet to win an Olympic medal, however. He finished sixth at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Summer Games. The Olympic diving trials end Saturday night.