A Torch Bearer's Salute to 100 Years of Olympic Spirit: A Book of Olympic Poems

By Kermite Bristow

New Poetry Collection a Torchbearer’s Salute to 100 Years of Olympic Spirit
Jacksonville, FL – (December 7, 2004) – Every so often there comes along a poet who chisels his words out of an unforgettable experience, a rare event in his life that left him forever changed. When Kermite Bristow, gifted in the expression of the beautiful, was chosen to be an Olympic torchbearer, he was inspired to create wonderful poetry now comprising his new book, A Torchbearer’s Salute to 100 Years of Olympic Spirit.

This poetry anthology—perfectly worded, exquisitely realized—tells of true-life stories of Olympic heroes. Written in rhyme, it explores the Olympics down through the ages and the people involved. At the same time, it pays tribute to the men and women whose passion for and love of sport has kept the Olympic spirit alive.

About the Author
Kermite Bristow was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1953. He currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Bristow won his first international poetry contest out of Baltimore, Maryland, as awarded by the International Library of Poetry in 2000. In April 2004, he placed in a national poetry contest as awarded by the American Poets Society in Baltimore, Maryland.

A Torchbearer’s Salute to 100 Years of Olympic Spirit * By Kermite Bristow
Publication Date: December 1, 2004
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781462834433

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A TORCH BEARER’S

SALUTE TO 100

YEARS OF OLYMPIC

SPIRIT

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BY KERMITE BRISTOW

Copyright © 2004 by Kermite Bristow. 556097

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ISBN:      Softcover         978-1-4134-5061-3

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Library of Congress Control Number:          2004091935

Rev. date: 10/01/2021

A TORCH BEARER’S SALUTE TO 100

YEARS OF OLYMPIC SPIRIT

BY KERMITE BRISTOW

COVER ARTWORK AND GREEK WRESTLERS

BY FRANK WILSON

Contents

About The Author

A Dedication Of Appreciation

Preface

Dawn Of Olympic Spirit

A Torchbearer’s Observation

A 1996 Olympic Torchbearer’s

Salute..To Another

Olympic Stars

Canada Olympic Star,

Silken Laumann

Great Britain’s Olympic Stars,

Tug Of War Team, Harold Abrahams & Eric Lidell

Tug Of War Team

Harold Abrahams

Eric Lidell

Japan’s Olympic Stars,

Tsuyoshi Yamanaka & Shun Fujimoto

Shun Fujimoto

United States Olympic Stars,

Jesse Owens & Florence Griffith Joyner

Florence Griffith Joyner

Kenya Olympic Star,

Australia Olympic Star,

China Olympic Star,

Conclusion Of Olympic Stars

A Torchbearer’s Sayings For The

`New Millennium

*Torch Map*

About the Author

Kermite Harvey Bristow was born in Syracuse, New York on January 25, 1953. Raised by parents James and Hattie, he is the oldest of his siblings. Three things that he enjoyed as a teenager and that he aspired to be involved with the rest of his life was the following: People and the community, Learning about History, local and global and running.

And…not necessarily in that order. For his running in middle and high school up until the present thirty years later, helped him to focus as well as initiating self-esteem and motivation.

It was not until after high school and marriage and raising a son that things started to excel in Kermite’s life. In order to motivate his son to be responsible and give back to the community, he would take himself and his family and involved them too as he worked through over a decade of community services. Events like running in the cold upstate New York winters to benefit the American Heart Association. He began to organize groups for walking and running. Then he started collecting money for homes for battered women, homeless shelters, children’s homes and veteran’s hospitals. These were some of the many charities documented that Kermite enjoyed doing.

In the eighties his city and his model agency Guild Fashionata (Kermite was in model/acting business in US and Canada for over 16 years) awarded him Model of the Year for year 1986-1987. It was an award he received for combining model professionalism and community service as was announced in the Syracuse Newspapers.

So thrilled was Kermite about receiving this award, that when modeling in Canada, he did the same volunteer work there. Later in time he encouraged and helped raise money to benefit a children’s hospital in