The stunning first-round election of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry as the next International Olympic Committee president made ...

The IOC is betting on a younger female leader to signal change. She enters the ring at a crucial time for athletes.

Kirsty Coventry was elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday. Coventry became the ...

Outgoing president Thomas Bach hailed the election of Kirsty Coventry as the first female and first African to lead the ...

After the stunning election win comes the sober business of leading the International Olympic Committee for Kirsty Coventry.

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to ...

Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s ...

Coventry was chosen over six other candidates, including Lord Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, to succeed Thomas ...

Coventry, a multiple swimming Olympic champion and her country's sports minister, was long seen as incumbent Bach's preferred choice and her win on Thursday in the first round of voting against ...

GREECE — Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry, the first African president of the International Olympic Com-mittee (IOC), can "even exceed the expectations" of the continent, said her predecessor Thomas Bach on ...

Zimbabwean swimming great Coventry became the most powerful single figure in sport on March 20. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa’s most decorated ...