History in the Making
GOLD! An Olympic Celebration by Harry Gordon by Harry Gordon
Just released
ISBN 9781921332241
This website commenced on 10/01/2008.
For the first time in Olympic History athletes were allowed to take part in the closing ceremony because of a Chinese student
This is an amazing story for all students throughout the world to read. It should be an inspiration for them to make this planet a better place to live.
A Chinese student named John Ian Wing saved the Olympic Games and restored the integrity of the Olympic Movement
The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games were beset with problems when a number of countries boycotted those Games, because of the Suez Crisis and Russia invading Hungary. Even some Governments had ordered their athletes not to mix with the other athletes in the Olympic Village.
Officials of the IOC and the Organizing Committee were aware of the problem, and were concerned that the Olympic Movement was being torn apart.
The worst was yet to come, when a near riot broke out during the final of the Water Polo between Russia and Hungary. The police were called in to calm the violite situation and the game had to be stopped because there was so much blood in the water.
For the IOC and the Organizing Committee, the closing ceremony could not come quick enough for them.
EV ROSH HaSHANA
Synagogue community
A young Chinese boy had observed all what was happening at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, and with just a few days to the closing ceremony, he wrote a letter to the chairman of the Organizing Committee with an 'idea', which would restore the integrity of the Olympic Movement and save the Games.
The president of the IOC Mr Avery Brundage, gave his approval and the boy's 'idea' was implimented at the closing ceremony of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
For the first time in the History of Mankind and Olympic History, men and women, regardless of their colour, race or religion, were allowed to come, to join and mingle freely and walk together as ONE NATION. Thus was born the Olympic Nation.
With all the global tension and political unrest of the 1950s, the athletes were laughing and waving to the crowd in the stands, conveying a message of goodwill, peace and harmony to the world.
For the first time in Olympic History, men and women from all nations regardless of colour, religion or nationality, came together to join and mingle freely as ONE NATION, the Olympic Nation.
For the first time in Olympic History, men and women from all nations regardless of colour, religion or nationality, came together to join and mingle freely as ONE NATION, the Olympic Nation.
