Article: Lewy Boulet back for 2nds.(Sports)

Byline: JOHN CONNOLLY

Magdalena Lewy Boulet, a polish emigre, who was sworn in as a United States citizen on Sept. 11, 2001, yesterday became America's newest red-white-and-blue heroine when she finished second in the U.S. Olympic women's marathon trials and earned a trip to the Beijing Games.

The 34-year-old Lewy Boulet led from the Boylston Street starting line for the next 23 1/2 miles before she was caught by Waltham-born, prerace favorite Deena Kastor as they passed MIT on the fourth and final loop of the 26-mile, 385-yard course.

Lewy Boulet, who finished fifth in the 2004 U.S. Olympic women's marathon trials in St. Louis, missing a ...

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