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

Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero’s welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone.

Kirsty Coventry’s rise to political importance as a white woman in a black majority Zimbabwe shows how sport is able to ...

Zimbabwe's Sports Minister and double Olympic swimming champion, Kirsty Coventry, is the first African and youngest person, at 41, to assume the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the country’s military boss to replace Kirsty Coventry as sports minister. Mnangagwa says that Gen.

Sebastian Coe's bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee has ended in defeat, with Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe winning the vote. Coe, 68, had said occupying the Olympic ...

“It’s not just my success, it is our success. We broke down barriers,” Coventry said in Zimbabwe. Dancers in animal fur kilts and head gear made from bird feathers stomped the ground as part ...

Newly Elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry Celebrated on Return Home to Zimbabwe HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry arrived Sunday ...

Kirsty Coventry listens a question during a press conference after she was elected as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece ...