Newsmakers: 1 Olympian Misses Mark, Another Beats the Streets

Magnuson Comes up Short

 was . But close just wasn't good enough.

The 26-year-old  native and two-time silver medalist missed the mark by less than one second. She finished third in the 50-meter freestyle finals behind Jessica Hardy, 24.50 seconds and Kara Lynn Joyce, who had a time of 24.73 seconds. Magnuson touched the wall at 24.78 seconds—0.05 or five hundredths of a second behind a spot on the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics Swim Team, according to U.S. Swimming time trials results. 

Douglas Wages a War

Two weeks after visiting the New York Stock Exchange with the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team and ringing The Closing Bell, Bobby Douglas was playing a game of “Beat the Streets” back in the Midwest.

“Listen to the instruction,” to launch a two-day wrestling clinic a couple weeks ago at Shepard High School in Palos Heights.

Douglas is a 70-year-old two-time former Olympian (1964, 1968), World silver and bronze wrestling medalist and a two-time former Olympic wrestling coach (1992, 2004). He still is fit as a fiddle.

And he is preparing himself these days to meet an opponent every bit as tough as the Russians—Gangs.

“We’re competing with the gangs,” Douglas said. “We’re going to beat the gangs. And that’s how we’re going to ‘Beat the Streets.’ We’re going to outrecruit them.

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