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audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - 2016 Rio Olympics Motto - Live Your Passion: The Olympics Motto - Citius, Altius, Fortius - The Olympic Games are a global event and are watched by the entire world where the athletes attempt to break records and become the best in the world. Keeping with the spirit of the games, the motto, 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' is an apt one..In 1891 A friend of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Father Henri Martin Didon of the Dominican order, was the principal of Arcueil College, near Paris. An energetic teacher, he used the discipline of sport as a powerful educational tool. One day, following an inter-school athletics meeting, Didon ended his speech quoting three Latin words: Citius, Altius, Fortius (Swift, Soaring, Stronger). Struck by the succinctness of this phrase, Coubertin - founder of the modern olympics, made it the Olympic motto, pointing out that ''Athletes need 'freedom of excess.' That is why we gave them this motto...a motto for people who dare to try to break records.'' 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. (zReportage COVER Image by: Â© Mark Reis/The Gazette/ZUMA Wire)
© zReportage.com Story of the Week # 608 - RIO 2016 - Live Your Passion - Launched August 24, 2016 - Full multimedia experience: audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - 2016 Rio Olympics Motto - Live Your Passion: The Olympics Motto - Citius, Altius, Fortius - The Olympic Games are a global event and are watched by the entire world where the athletes attempt to break records and become the best in the world. Keeping with the spirit of the games, the motto, 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' is an apt one..In 1891 A friend of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Father Henri Martin Didon of the Dominican order, was the principal of Arcueil College, near Paris. An energetic teacher, he used the discipline of sport as a powerful educational tool. One day, following an inter-school athletics meeting, Didon ended his speech quoting three Latin words: Citius, Altius, Fortius (Swift, Soaring, Stronger. Struck by the succinctness of this phrase, Coubertin - founder of the modern olympics, made it the Olympic motto, pointing out that ''Athletes need 'freedom of excess.' That is why we gave them this motto...a motto for people who dare to try to break records.'' 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. (zReportage COVER Image by: Â© Mark Reis/The Gazette/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.:608

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