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

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

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

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

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. “It is a signal ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 41-year-old Zimbabwe resident will become the 10th president in the 131-year history of the International Olympic Committee.

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, emerging from a contentious seven-candidate race Thursday to take hold of one of ...