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.
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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.
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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]
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The Indy Classic Marathon, Half-Marathon and 5-K debuts on Saturday, September 8, and the event will have a decidedly military emphasis. Organizers announced that the inaugural race “is dedicated to all active and reserve military personnel and to fallen military personnel who have lost their lives defending our country since September 11, 2001, and their families.”
The course through downtown Indianapolis and outlying areas will take in the Soldiers & Sailors Monument on the Circle, the scenic over hanging trees along Meridian Street, and the prestigious American Legion Mall bordered by the World War Memorial at the finish line.
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