Kirsty Coventry will become the 10th International Olympic Committee president - but why is she both a groundbreaking and ...

Zimbabwe's sports minister Kirsty Coventry is elected as the new IOC president, becoming the first woman and first African to ...

Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s ...

But Christophe Dubi, the Switzerland-based IOC’s Olympic Games executive director, had little else to say about Trump’s new tariffs, which were partially paused Wednesday amid financial fallout over ...

In a stunning twist, the 41-year-old Coventry secured a majority of the votes on the very first ballot of the election, upending what was expected to be a lengthy, multi-round voting process during ...

Coventry won an overall majority in the very first round, in a shock result that made history. Follow the news and latest updates from the IOC presidential election below. The next Summer Games is ...

One of Coventry’s beaten election rivals, Sebastian Coe, leads World Athletics. It broke an Olympic taboo by paying $50,000 prize money for track and field champions in Paris last year. In Los Angeles ...

It was the most open and hard-to-call IOC presidential election in decades with Coventry expected to lead the first round short of an absolute majority. Though several rounds of votes were widely ...

Incoming International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry has revealed to Sky News she is against banning countries from the Olympics over wars and will open talks on Russia being allowed ...

Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer turned sports administrator, was on Thursday elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee, marking an historic milestone as the ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and first African ...