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Felex, Oliver win awards
Reuters Published in The Saudi Gazette on 18 - 11 - 2010


NEW YORK: World champion Allyson Felix and American record holder David Oliver have won Jesse Owens Awards as US Athletes of the Year. Felix, the three-time world 200m champion, earned 2010 Diamond League titles in both the 200 and 400. She is a three-time Owens Award winner. Oliver set the US 110 metres hurdles record of 12.89 seconds during an undefeated outdoor season, a performance that made the Olympic bronze medallist the third fastest hurdler of all time.

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