Fast-flying Felix ready for showdown with Campbell

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BEIJING (AFP) — Two-time world 200-meter champion Allyson Felix is ready for a showdown with Veronica Campbell in a bid to win the Olympic title that eluded her in 2004 when the Jamaican edged her for gold.

Felix was only 18 when she took the silver medal at Athens, relatively wide-eyed and new at the Olympic experience.

"When I come back this time, it's all about business," Felix said Thursday. "I've waited four years for a rematch. I'm not taking it lightly."

Campbell, the reigning 100m world champion, failed to qualify in that event and so did Felix, who added the sprint in a double bid that died at the US Olympic trials.

That means their only paths to individual gold are through each other in the 200m, which begins Tuesday with the semi-finals...