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
Just released
ISBN 9781921332241
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.
