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 Kirsty Coventry becomes the first woman and the first person from Africa to be elected to the post. The former swimming star succeeds the outgoing president, Thomas Bach of Germany ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. "It is a ...

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

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) ...

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 ...

From the list of seven candidates, former Zimbabwean athlete and winner of seven medals, Kirsty Coventry, received the minimum number of votes for a first-round win: 49 of the 97 cast.

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Kirsty Coventry's story is one of apparent contradictions. She's a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a Black-majority Zimbabwe and an Olympic swimmer turned politician. She's also now one ...