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American sprinter Allyson Felix became one of the star athletes of the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. A record-breaking sprinter in the meter event, Felix is also the first American track athlete to enter professional ranks straight out of high school.

She has been hailed as the new savior for an American track-and-field team blighted by rumors of doping, and she has found the sudden celebrity a bit intense.

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"You could say it's been a little busy, but it's all been good fun," she told Richard Luscombe of the London Observer. "Every-thing that's happened has been a blessing, something new and different, although all the attention takes a little adjusting to."

Born on November 18, , Felix grew up in Santa Clarita, California.

Her father, Paul, is a Baptist minister who had once been an excellent sprinter as a teen, and from her schoolteache