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TFS News Briefs: Olympic Trials Edition: 4/18/08

Posted April 18th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Olympics, TFS News Briefs

US Olympic Trials - Women's Marathon Profile of Hansons-Brooks Distance Project
All five members of the Michigan-based Hansons-Brooks Distance Project women’s team have qualified for Sunday’s Olympic Marathon Trials in Boston. Dot McMahon, Melissa White, Yolanda Flamino, Desiree Davila and Lori Stich are profiled in an article on the Detroit Free Press website.
Read more at: [Detroit Free Press]

Polish Immigrant Will Run for 9/11 Victims at Trials
Magdalena Lewy, a Polish immigrant who became a naturalized US citizen on 9/11/01, the same day thousands of her compatriots were killed in a senseless act of terrorism, will run in honor of those Americans this Sunday as she tried to make the US Olympic Marathon Team. The assistant coach at Cal was profiled in an article on the San Francisco Chronicle website.
Read more at: [San Francisco Chronicle]

Emily LeVan Will Run Trials In Celebration Of Her Daughter
Three-year-old Madeline Johnson has Leukemia. Her mother, Emily LeVan, will be running the US Olympic Marathon Trials on Sunday in celebration of her special daughter.
Read more at: [Boston Herald]

162 Ladies, 162 Stories
A total of 162 ladies are listed on the USATF Olympic Marathon Trials website. With two days to go, 143 of them have qualified and declared, 10 have qualified and are still listed as open, one has yet to qualify and is still listed as open, and 8 have qualified but have scratched. Every one of them has a story and many (most?) of their hometown newspapers have taken this fact to heart. I have spotlighted a few of them above. Here are a few more of the stories I’ve found:
»Elva Dryer (Gunnison, Col.)
»Joan Benoit Samuelson (Freeport, Mai.):
»Janelle Peralt (Kerrville, Tex.)
»Sarah Haskins and Colleen Casey (St. Louis, Mis.):
»Melisa Christian (Dallas, Tex.)
»Women with Arizona ties
»Kate O’Neill (Milton, Mass.)
These stories and many others can be found here: [Google News]

For more news, analysis, interviews, videos, and results from the 2008 Boston Marathon and USA Olympic Women’s Marathon Trials, please visit: http://boston.thefinalsprint.com/

In addition, check out the official blog of women’s marathon favorite Kate O’Neill at: http://kateoneill.thefinalsprint.com/