A QUEEN'S REIGN IS TEETERING.(SPORTS)

Byline: BOB BAUM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Saturday night, Marion Jones, the queen of track and field, winner of an unprecedented five track and field medals four years ago in Sydney, Australia, looked ordinary, of all things. She will not be defending her 100-meter gold at the Athens Olympics.

Fairly or not, Jones' fifth-place finish in Saturday night's 100 final fans the flames of the drug scandal that is hanging over these U.S. Olympic track and field trials.

``You look for her to hit that gear and pull away from everybody,'' said Herman Frazier, a former Olympic sprinter and vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. ``That gear wasn't there.'' …