On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...

Greece, March 20 (Reuters) - Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s first female and first African ...

Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer turned sports administrator, was on Thursday elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee, marking an historic milestone as the ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — After enjoying a stunning election win comes the sober business of leading the International Olympic Committee for Kirsty ... February with the IOC excluding Russia from ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — The IOC is the undisputed champion of running the most tightly managed sports election, one compared by veteran Olympic ... to the national team that included ...

Power, Politics, and the Olympic Prize: IOC Race Heats up on Greece's Sunlit Shores By Ossian Shine PYLOS, Greece - The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on ...