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Article: As the great unknown, Lewy Boulet found her place
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2008
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US WOMEN'S OLYMPIC TRIALS / On road racing
For more than two hours yesterday morning she was in her own
world, her own race. The gun was fired on Boylston Street and
Magdalena Lewy Boulet sprinted off by herself and stayed there for
more than 23 miles. Around the Common, up Commonwealth Avenue, over
the Harvard Bridge, and along Memorial Drive.
"That's not Deena," a bystander at MIT observed.
If any woman was going to run away from the pack at the Olympic
Marathon Trials, it figured to be Deena Kastor, the Olympic medalist
and US record-holder, whose qualifying time was a dozen minutes
faster than anyone else's. Instead, here was a mystery guest with
shades, a bare midriff, and a long braid ...