International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, left, and IOC member and former swimmer Kirsty Coventry, right, speak during a press conference after the executive board meeting of the ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first ...

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.

Kirsty Coventry, the newly elected IOC president, highlighted the significant progress in advancing equality and diversity ...

He wants to relax strict broadcast rules and let Olympic athletes use footage of their games performances on social media and be global influencers. Though clearly an outsider in the IOC contest, the ...

The International Olympic Committee elected Kirsty Coventry as its new president. With Coventry's deep ties to surfing, ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, securing victory in a high-stakes vote at a luxury seaside resort in Greece’s southwestern Peloponnese. The ...

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

also served as IOC president. Seb Coe, the president of the international ... her as she steers the Olympic Movement into the future," U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee chair Gene Sykes ...

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

The previous nine presidents were men from Europe or the U.S."This is an extraordinary moment," she said in an address to IOC members moments after outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach made the ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and ...