John Ian Wing a Chinese student, had a dream and changed the Olympic Closing Ceremony

My dream of One Olympic Nation

Olympic history in the making

All athletes walked together as One Nation, as John Ian Wing had suggested to the Olympic Organizing Committee and thus created The Olympic Nation

A Boy's Dream

The Closing Ceremony of the 1956 Olympic Games


For the very first time in the History of Mankind and Olympic History, ordinary men and women were allowed to come together, to intermingle and walk freely as One Nation. For that brief moment in time, war, politics and nationality were all forgotten,

yet, some of the countries below were at war with each other

Credit: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd Melbourne

John Ian Wing submitted this drawing with his letter, to the Organising Committee

John Ian Wing was a 17 year old student at the Swinburne Technical College doing his carpentry apprenticeship, at the time he wrote the letter

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