The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa’s most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political ...

The former swimming star succeeds the outgoing president, Thomas Bach of Germany.Kirsty Coventry has made sporting history by being elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC ...

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

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 ...

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

PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) - 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 ...

A fortnight after her historic election, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s President-elect, Kirsty Coventry, was ...

Kirsty Coventry, right, is embraced by Anita Defrantz after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a ... of oppressing political opposition. Kirsty Coventry, 41, was elected to one of the most powerful ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall of the organization that was founded in 1894.