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The Nation’s First Black Female Doctor Blazed a Path for Women in Medicine. But She Was Left Out of the Story for Decades
After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...
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Kirsty Coventry smashes glass ceiling to become first woman and first African to lead IOC
Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s ...
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Ringside view by Tushar Bhaduri: A new chapter in Olympic Movement
Kirsty Coventry's election as the next IOC president is historic, as she becomes the youngest, first woman, and first African ...
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Olympic Swimmer Kirsty Coventry Makes IOC History as First Woman President
In an historic election, Zimbabwean swimming icon Kirsty Coventry was chosen as the first woman and first African president ...
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Kirsty Coventry made history as the first woman elected IOC president, with Anita DeFrantz looking on
“I was just really proud that I could make her proud. She inspired me,” said Coventry. “It is significant. I think it will ...
British Olympic hero Sharron Davies blasts IOC after Lord Coe lost election race and throws gauntlet down to new president to protect women's sport after boxing gend…
New International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry is facing immediate calls to protect the women's category after ...
New Olympic president elected as Britain's Lord Seb Coe discovers fate
Kirsty Coventry, the two-time gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, claimed 49 votes to become the next boss of the ...
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Olympics-Coventry becomes first woman and first African to lead International Olympic Committee
PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) -Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to ...
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Kirsty Coventry elected as first woman IOC president
Kirsty Coventry has smashed through the glass ceiling of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to become the organisation ...
IOC presidential election LIVE: Seb Coe bids for Olympic throne in fiercely contested seven-way vote
Lord Coe is up against Juan Antonio Samaranch, whose father was IOC president for 21 years, and Zimbabwean former swimmer ...
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Britain's youngest shepherdess 'over the moon' at the birth of five lambs
Britain's youngest shepherdess is "over the moon" after welcoming ... UK welcomed the lambs into her growing flock of eleven which includes five ewes and a tup. The newborn female pedigree Ryeland ...