Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and become the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports. The Zimbabwe sports ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a ... of oppressing political opposition. Kirsty Coventry, 41, was elected to one of the most powerful ...

Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, saying it was an "extraordinary moment". At 41 ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday, becoming the Switzerland-based organization’s first woman and first African leader.

The former swimming star succeeds the outgoing president, Thomas Bach of Germany.Kirsty Coventry has made sporting history by being elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC ...

Kirsty Coventry, a seven-time Olympic medalist in swimming from Zimbabwe, was elected March 20 as the 10th president of the ...

Kirsty Coventry transitioned from Olympic champion to IOC president with her lifelong commitment to the transformative power ...

But Christophe Dubi, the Switzerland-based IOC’s Olympic Games executive director, had little else to say about Trump’s new tariffs, which were partially paused Wednesday amid financial fallout over ...

INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee president-elect Kirsty Coventry wants dreams of young athletes to come true.Coventry was speaking after her welcome to the Olympic House in Lausanne on Tuesday by ...

Kirsty Coventry's story ... hero in a Black-majority Zimbabwe and an Olympic swimmer turned politician. She's also now one of the most powerful figures in global sports as president of the ...