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

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41.

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

Two-time Olympic 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya hopes that newly appointed International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...

Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero ...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday appointed the country’s military boss to replace Kirsty Coventry as sports ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected the new president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday. Coventry, 41, becomes the ...

Kirsty Coventry has become the first female president in the IOC’s 131-year history - Getty Images/Fabrice Coffrini Unlike Coe, the change candidate and a staunch defender of fairness for women ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry on her election as International Olympic Committee ...

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

Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee ...

Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, becoming the first ...