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linger and

emotions
still run
high for several local
Jewish people two weeks
after they participated in
the Michigan leg of the
2002 Winter Olympics
Torch Relay.
The torch-toting Dr. Pierce with his wife, Lynda
Dr. Jeff Pierce of West
and their 1-year-old daughter Sydney.
Bloomfield said he literally
"screamed with excitement" when he from the nurse at Botsford General
took over the torch to jog two-tenths Hospital who had nominated him as
of a mile along West Huron Street in a torchbearer. She said he is an
inspiration to her because he found-
Ann Arbor Jan. 7. His excitement
ed Athletes Unlimited, a non-profit
continued as he became a television
organization that provides recre-
star briefly by being interviewed on
ational and competitive sports
the national NBC-TV network.
opportunities
for disabled people.
"Awesome and emotional are the
About
50
local
members compete in
best two words to describe the expe-
wheelchair
basketball,
tennis, track
rience," said Dr. Pierce, 38, a reha-
and
field
events
and
swimming
for
bilitation physician with the
paraplegics.
Michigan Sports and Spine Centers
"The organization gives impaired
in Farmington Hills, Troy and
athletes a chance to continue their
Garden City. "I carried the torch
athletic careers," Dr. Pierce said. "It's
with pride and honor. I'm not a reg-
a very rewarding experience. Our
ular jogger, but I ran the distance in
Wheelchair
Thunderbird team even
a hurry.
won
the
national
basketball title."
The Olympics Torch Relay came
Born
in
Detroit,
Dr. Pierce attend-
through Michigan as part of the
ed Harrison High School in
flame's 13,500-mile cross-country
Farmington Hills, Michigan State
journey to Salt Lake City, where the
University and the New Jersey
2002 Winter Olympics will get
School of Osteopathic Medicine,
underway Feb. 8. Chevrolet is spon-
graduating in 1994. He's also the
soring the relay through 125 major
physician
for the Detroit Fury team
cities in 46 states, with 11,500
in
the
Arena
Football League and
torchbearers.
the University of Michigan-
After his Ann Arbor run, NBC
Dearborn athletic teams.
interviewed Dr. Pierce, who is affili-
Among those in the crowd as Dr.
ated with Botsford General Hospital
Pierce sprinted down West Huron
in Farmington Hills, for one of its
Street were his mother, Frances
65 daily video profiles on relay par-
Pierce
of Farmington Hills, his wife,
ticipants nationwide. The profiles
Lynda,
a speech therapist, and the
are sponsored by the Coca Cola Co.
couple's
one-year-old daughter.
which bought Dr. Pierce's torch for
Friends and hospital colleagues also
him as a souvenir.
were on hand to cheer him on.
The other local Jewish torchbear-
Dr. Pierce's only regret is that his
ers, including Gretl Frank of
late father, Paul Pierce, wasn't. there
Southfield, Dr. Ted Schwartzenfeld
to watch him carry the torch. The
of West Bloomfield and Bedonna
elder
Pierce, "a real talented athlete,"
and Bob Perish of Farmington Hills
died
last
year. "He would have loved
also kept the 33-inch metal-and-
this,"
said
his son. "It really would
glass torches they carried on the
have made him proud." 1 1
Olympics Relay.
NBC learned about Dr. Pierce

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