Read the boy's letter

Olympic Games 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.

Two new websites

Visit website No 2 John Ian Wing tells his story

Visit website No 3 Private letters to Organising Committees and IOC.

One boy's Olympic dream

A young boy had a dream that one day the world would

became One Nation

This website commenced on 10/01/2008.

John Ian Wing, age 10

The Sun: December 1956

 "SO UNKNOWN CHINESE BOY. WHEREVER YOU ARE, COME OUT AND TAKE A BOW."

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But the boy was too afraid to come out because the world press wanted to interview him. Secondly, his school mates wouldn't believed him. Thirdly, Chinese children must consult their parents before writing to the authorities.

This site was last updated 1st March 2009

Schoolboy makes Olympic history

At the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games closing ceremony, the 17 year 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.

And so it was done and history was written.

John Ian Wing, age 17

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The Age Melbourne

December 1956

The Sun Melbourne

December 1956

GOLD! An Olympic Celebration by Harry Gordon

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Olympic Report 1956

A prophetic image of a new future for mankind - the athletes of the world not now sharply devided but - marching as one in a hotchpotch of sheer humanity, a fiesta of friendship, ------. This, more than any remembered laurel of the Games, was something no-one had ever experienced before ---- not anywhere in the world, not anywhere in time.

The Olympic Closing Ceremony

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