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audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - When he announced in Paris, on a winter's evening in 1892, the forthcoming re-establishment of the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin was applauded, but nobody at the time imagined the scale of the project entailed by reviving the ancient Olympic Games, appointing a committee in charge of organizing them and creating an international movement. The IOC was created on 23 June 1894; the 1st Olympic Games of the modern era opened in Athens on 6 April 1896; and the Olympic Movement has not stopped growing ever since. The Olympic Movement encompasses organizations, athletes and other persons who agree to be guided by the principles of the Olympic Charter. PHOTOGRAPHY By: ZUMA Photographers: DANIEL A. ANDERSON, PAUL KITAGAKI JR., SCOTT MC KIERNAN, CHRISTOPHER MORRIS and ZUMA Newspaper Partners: MICHAEL GOULDING via Orange County, BRIAN PETERSON via Star-Tribune, MARK REIS via Colorado Springs Gazette, LUCAS OLENIUK via Toronto Star. (Title Slide Cover: Credit: Â© Paul Kitagaki Jr./zReportage.com/ZUMA Wire)
© zReportage.com Story of the Week # 607 - RIO 2016 - Spirit Of The Games - Launched August 17, 2016 - Full multimedia experience: audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - When he announced in Paris, on a winter's evening in 1892, the forthcoming re-establishment of the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin was applauded, but nobody at the time imagined the scale of the project entailed by reviving the ancient Olympic Games, appointing a committee in charge of organizing them and creating an international movement. The IOC was created on 23 June 1894; the 1st Olympic Games of the modern era opened in Athens on 6 April 1896; and the Olympic Movement has not stopped growing ever since. The Olympic Movement encompasses organizations, athletes and other persons who agree to be guided by the principles of the Olympic Charter. PHOTOGRAPHY By: ZUMA Photographers: DANIEL A. ANDERSON, PAUL KITAGAKI JR., SCOTT MC KIERNAN, CHRISTOPHER MORRIS and ZUMA Newspaper Partners: MICHAEL GOULDING via Orange County, BRIAN PETERSON via Star-Tribune, MARK REIS via Colorado Springs Gazette, LUCAS OLENIUK via Toronto Star. (Title Slide Cover: Credit: Â© Paul Kitagaki Jr./zReportage.com/ZUMA Wire

Paul Kitagaki Jr.

Photographer and videographer Paul Kitagaki Jr. has traveled the world covering natural and human-caused disasters, documenting the lives of everyday Iraqis living under Saddam Hussein, Mexico City residents digging out of a deadly earthquake, Asian factory workers laboring for pennies to produce high-end athletic shoes for the U.S. and international athletes competing for gold at nine different Olympic Games. Kitagaki's work has been honored with dozens of photo awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, and been nominated for Emmys. He's been published in news outlets worldwide, including National Geographic, Time, Smithsonian Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Stern, People, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, as well as in his home paper, The Sacramento Bee.:607

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