A Chinese Boy Changed the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games
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John Ian Wing, age 8
One boy's Olympic dream
A young boy had a dream that one day the world would became One Nation
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John Ian Wing, age 17
Schoolboy makes Olympic history
At the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games closing ceremony, the 17year old made his dream come true.
During the Games he wrote an anonymous letter to the Organizing Committee, suggesting that all the athletes should come together at the closing ceremony as one nation.
In his letter he wrote: War, politics and nationality will all be forgotten. What more could anybody want if the whole world could be made as One Nation
The Age Melbourne
December 1956
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The Sun Melbourne
December 1956
For the first time in Olympic history, athletes were allowed to take part in the closing ceremony of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Regardless of their nationality, colour or religion, they intermingled and marched as One Olympic Nation. A prophetic image of a new future for mankind - something no-one had ever experienced before - not anywhere in the world, not anywhere in time.
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