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|  Allyson Felix, Tyson Gay to Highlight adidas Track Classic April 5, 2007 From press release.
The adidas Track Classic will begin at noon on May 20 at
The Home Depot Center,
on the campus of California State University, Dominguez
Hills, and will be broadcast live
on ESPN from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT. Felix, 21, is among the biggest prep track stars in California
history, and became the first
track-and-field athlete to turn professional straight out of
high school. A five-time California
state champion while at Los Angeles Baptist High School,
Felix still lives and trains in Los
Angeles. She set the World Junior Record at 200 meters
and won an Olympic silver medal
in 2004, when she was just 18, and the next year was
crowned 200-meter World Champion.
Ranked #1 in the world last year at 200 meters by Track &
Field News magazine, she was
also #6 in the world at 100 meters. She will run the 200
here. Gay, the 2004 NCAA 100-meter champion out of the
University of Arkansas, last season
demonstrated why he is fast becoming the most exciting
sprinter in the sport. With his
100-meter time of 9.84 and his 200-meter mark of 19.68,
the 24-year-old sprinted into
the record books as the fastest 100m-200m combo runner
in history. He finished his
breakthrough year by winning the World Cup 100 meters
and World Athletics Final
200 meters, and enters the 2007 season ranked #1 in the
world at 200 and #2 at 100.
At the adidas Track Classic, he will run the 100. Dozens more Olympic and World Championship medalists
will be announced soon. Produced by Global Athletics & Marketing, Inc., the adidas
Track Classic is the second stop
of USA Track & Field's Visa Championship Series. Tickets,
from $40 (finish line) down to $10,
are now available by calling Ticketmaster at 213-480-3232
or visiting www.Ticketmaster.com.
For group sales, call 1-877-AEG-TICKETS.
Visit www.adidasTrackClassic.com
for updates and more information.
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