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Jeremy Wariner, Allyson Felix, Tyson Gay All Running adidas Track Classic on May 18 A trio of reigning World Champions and Olympic gold-medal contenders - Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix and Jeremy Wariner - are set to compete at the adidas Track Classic on May 18, organizers announced today. Among them, they brought home eight gold medals from the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, and all three are destined for the Olympic spotlight later this summer. The adidas Track Classic will begin at 12:30 p.m. on May 18 at The Home Depot Center, on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills, and will be broadcast live on ESPN from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. PDT (4 p.m.-6 p.m. EDT). Gay, who won gold at 100 meters, 200 meters and the 4x100-meter relay in Osaka, was named 2007 male IAAF Athlete of the Year in track and field by the sport's international governing body. Among his many other honors last year, Gay was ranked #1 in the world at 100 and 200 meters by Track & Field News magazine, which also named him Man of the Year. Felix also won three gold medals at the World Championships, at 200 meters and both the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays. In defending her 200-meter title, the Los Angeles native ran 21.81 seconds, the fastest time in the world by any woman in the last eight years. A 2004 Olympic silver medalist, the 22-year-old finished the year ranked not only #1 in the world at 200 meters, but #3 at 400 meters and #6 at 100 meters. For their efforts, Felix and Gay were named the 2007 Jesse Owens Award winners as the top track-and-field athletes in the United States. Wariner, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist at 400 meters and the 4x400-meter relay, was ranked #1 in the world for 2007 after defending his World Champion titles. Dominant at the distance for the past three years, Wariner notched six of the top 10 times in the world last year; his winning time of 43.45 seconds in Osaka topped the 2007 list.
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