Famous Olympic Adoptees: Toby Dawson
During the 2006 Olympics we watched Toby Dawson ski himself to a bronze medal in the Men’s Freestyle Moguls. Dawson also hoped that he could ski his way to his birth father…he had hoped that the press he would receive across the world would his birth father to hear that he was looking for him.
Well, it worked and he received more that he was hoping for. In fact, he had to call off his search because he received hundreds of emails and phone calls. However, the South Korea Tourism Organization stepped in and selected Dawson to help support their bid for the 2014 bid for the Olympics and they agreed to help him search for his family.
On February 27, 2007 DNA testing confirmed that Kim Jae-su was Toby Dawson’s birth father.
According to his birth father, 3-year-old Toby was lost by his birth mother while walking through a busy city market in 1981. Kim was a truck driver at the time and when he got home and attempted to search, it was too late. He tried to search the orphanages but was turned away and not allowed to see the children. Kim declined speaking about Dawson’s biological mother.
Information from Adoption.about.com
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