Through the happenstance of scheduling, Magdalena Lewy became an American citizen on Sept. 11, 2001, imbuing an otherwise dark day with both poignancy and pride.

This Sunday, she will earn an opportunity to wear a Team USA uniform
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"We love Jenny. Who doesn’t love Jenny?" two-time Marla Runyan told us earlier this year, speaking about Jenny Crain,
a popular, gregarious, and effervescent presence in American distance
running for more than a decade. Crain qualified for four...

Maine’s
own long-distance runner Joan Benoit Samuelson will be trying out once
more for the Olympics on Sunday. She’s not expecting to make the U.S.
team again, as she told The New York Times: "Oh, God, no. It’s just me
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The United States Olympic Committee and USA Track & Field on
Friday hosted a media teleconference with 2008 U.S. Olympic Team
hopeful Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) to preview the upcoming
2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Marathon in Boston, ...

Training partners Deena Kastor and Kate
O'Neill, contenders in the Olympic women's marathon trials, will have a
high-profile cheerleader Sunday in Boston.
Ryan Hall, fresh off his fifth-place finish in
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Kate O'Neill, one of the top contenders to
make the Olympic marathon team, returns to her hometown of Boston to
compete in this Sunday's trials race. O'Neill, a Yale graduate who made
her first Olympic team as a 10-k runner in Athens, made her marat...