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

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday, becoming the ...

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

Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, saying it was an "extraordinary moment". At 41, the two-time ...

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 ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece -- Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became ...

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 ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and becomes the first woman and first African to get arguably the biggest job in global sports. The Zimbabwe sports ...

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

The International Olympic Committee elected its first female president Thursday morning. Utah’s Olympic Organizing Committee welcomes her.

Zimbabwe's Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry has been elected the new president of the International Olympic Committee.