ROUNDUP : SECURITY MEASURES EXAMINED IN WAKE OF SAUDI BOMBING.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

Security remains the biggest concern of Olympic officials as the Atlanta Games approach, especially following the bombing of a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia last Tuesday, Dr. LeRoy T. Walker, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said Friday.

``The biggest budget we have is for security,'' Walker said, ``and we still don't know if it will work.''

``You don't know who will have a cause,'' Walker said of groups that might attempt some type of disruption. ``It's not just an awareness thing like Tommie Smith and John Carlos did in Mexico City (a victory-stand demonstration on behalf of race relations in 1968). These are violent things out there.''

Atlanta residents have been warned that security drills will be conducted next week.

The helicopter exercises begin Monday around Olympic venues in Atlanta, Clayton County, Stone Mountain, Conyers, Lake Lanier and the University of Georgia.

Meanwhile, a U.S.-Saudi Arabia exhibition soccer game is still on for Sunday in Oneonta, N.Y.

Officials said security will be stepped up for the game between two Olympic teams that was scheduled long before Tuesday's bombing.

Thompson takes two sprints: Olympian Jenny Thompson won two events at the Santa Clara International, the final Olympic tuneup swim meet.

Thompson, one of the top American gold-medal hopefuls, eased to victory in the 100-meter freestyle and 100 butterfly. Her winning 100 freestyle time of 55.28 seconds was only one-100th of a second slower than the winning time in the U.S. Olympic trials.

Thompson, 23, a gold medalist in two relays in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, posted the fifth-best time in the world this year. She is the American record-holder and former world record-holder in the 100 free.

The former Stanford swimmer and a resident of Dover, N.H., also won the 100-meter fly in 1:04.

The closest race was in the men's 100 breaststroke, in which U.S. Olympian Kurt Grote of San Diego outreached Japan's Hideyuki Suto 1:04.10 to 1:04.12.

Another U.S. Olympian, Allison Wagner of Gainesville, Fla., captured the women's 400 individual medley in 4:48.82.

In a battle of Olympians, New Zealand's Danyon Loader, silver medalist at Barcelona, edged Josh Davis of San Antonio in the men's 200 freestyle. Loader swam 1:50.42, Davis 1:50.94.

Sergey Mariniuk, who swims for the host Santa Clara Swim Club, won the men's 400 individual medley in 4:23.74. It was the second victory of the meet for Mariniuk, who will swim for his native Moldova in Atlanta. He won the 800 free Thursday.

Christin Petelski, a member of the Canadian Olympic team, prevailed in the women's 200 breaststroke in 2:33.82.

Glaus leads power display: Troy Glaus and Matt LeCroy hit home runs and all nine starters reached base as Team USA routed Australia 11-3 in baseball to extend its winning streak to 39 games.

The U.S. team, 18-0 this year with 44 homers, opens a five-game series with Olympic champion Cuba tonight at Zebulon N.C.

Glaus, of UCLA, hit a two-run homer to give Team USA a 3-0 lead in the first inning. LeCroy's solo shot made it 8-3 in the fifth. Team USA starter R.A. Dickey (4-0) allowed three runs on nine hits in five innings.

Christie, Bailey defeated: Bruny Surin beat the Olympic and world champions in winning the 100 meters at the Gaz de France Grand Prix in Paris. Surin was timed in 10.03 seconds, edging Canadian teammate and world champion Donovan Bailey, second in 10.04.

Olympic gold medalist Linford Christie of Britain was third in 10.05, followed by American Jon Drummond in 10.08.

Surin, a two-time world indoor 60-meter champion and world silver medalist behind Bailey outdoors, had a clear lead at 80 meters. Then the field started closing in, but he held first by a narrow margin.

Drummond was followed by Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago, and UCLA, in 10.09. Leroy Burrell, the world record-holder at 9.85, was sixth in 10.13.

Frankie Fredericks of Namibia, who has the year's fastest time of 9.87, decided to run the 200 in an attempt to post a fast time after Michael Johnson's world record of 19.66 at the U.S. Olympic trials. He ran 19.95 in winning easily into a wind.

Tonya Buford beat American teammate and world record-holder Kim Batten in the women's 400 hurdles at 53.54, the best time of the season.

Another year's best was set in the men's 400 hurdles as Derrick Adkins won in 47.70, bettering the 47.98 that Bryan Bronson ran in beating him at the U.S. Olympic trials. Bronson was third in 48.37 Friday.

Noureddine Morceli fell short of his world record in the 1,500 but still won in 3:29.50. It was Morceli's sixth-fastest time, but only one other person in history has done better, Said Aouita with 3:29.46.

Sergei Bubka won the pole vault at 19 feet, 8-1/4 inches, with Igor Trandekov of Russia second at 19-6-1/4 and South African Okkert Brits third at 19-2.

American Lawrence Johnson was eighth at 18-4.

Salah Hissou went under 13 minutes in the 5,000 meters, winning in 12:55.93 and leading a 1-2-3 Moroccan sweep.

Khalid Boulami was runner-up at 13:02.30, just ahead of Smail Sghir, 13:02.94.

Marie-Jose Perec, making a rare racing appearance in her native France while training in the United States, won the women's 400 in 49.46, the fastest in the world this season. Mary Onyali of Nigeria took the women's 100 in 11.06.

Who ya gonna gouge? Georgia officials cut off service to a pay-phone company that was charging as much as $1.75 for a local call on phones it installed near Olympic venues.

The Public Service Commission said Atlanta-based Metro-Tel Inc. also was illegally placing time limits on local calls, prohibiting callers from using the long-distance carrier of their choice and failing to equip phones for the hearing impaired.

Decision due: Bob Kempainen, the top American qualifier for the Olympic marathon, will decide by July 12 whether severe knee pain will keep him from competing in Atlanta.

Kempainen said earlier this month that inflamed bands of tendons connecting his hips to the knees had disrupted his training for the Aug. 4 Olympic marathon. He has been training in the San Francisco area and the condition seems to have improved, said his agent, Bob Wood.

``He's getting some mileage in,'' Wood said. ``It's just a question if he feels he can get in good enough shape.''

Wood said the condition was a common injury for runners. Kempainen could not be reached for comment.

Kempainen earned his spot on the Olympic team with a victory in the marathon trials in February.

Ward takes a leap: McLain Ward, an alternate on the 1996 U.S. Olympic show-jumping team, won the $7,500 Pepsi Jump-Off at the annual Lake Placid (N.Y.) Horse Show.

Ward, of Brewster, N.Y., was one of nine riders from the 31-horse field to qualify for the tiebreaking jump-off by riding without penalty over the original 14-jump course. She then finished the course in 39.69 seconds for the win.

Co-captains named: Former wrestling gold medalists and world champions Kenny Monday and Bruce Baumgartner have been chosen co-captains for the U.S. Olympic freestyle team in Atlanta.

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Photo: UCLA's Troy Glaus celebrates his two-run homer durin g Team USA's 11-3 rout of Australia.

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