OMAHA, Neb. — Garrett Weber-Gale completed a sprint double at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials today, winning the 50-meter freestyle with an American record, while Gary Hall Jr. failed to claim a spot on the team heading to Beijing.

Weber-Gale, who won the 100 free, touched first in the furious one-lap sprint with a time of 21.47 seconds, beating the mark of 21.59 that Cullen Jones set the previous day in the preliminaries.

Defending world champion Ben Wildman-Tobriner got the second Olympic spot in 21.65, while Jones was denied a chance to race the event in Beijing when he touched in 21.81. He will be going to his first Olympics as a relay swimmer.

Hall won't be on the team, putting all his effort into one race. He was fourth in 21.91, knocking the 33-year-old iconoclast out of his quest to win a third straight gold medal in the 50.