“President Trump is a huge supporter of sport. There’s never been a sitting president that has attended the Super Bowl,” Coventry said. “He was the president at the time when LA was ...

PYLOS, Greece: 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 130-year ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and the first African to lead the organisation in its 131-year history. She ...

“It is a really powerful signal we are truly global and evolved into an organisation open to diversity,” said Coventry, who was only the second woman to run for the post. Coventry, the ...

On Thursday, Kirsty Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and Zimbabwe’s current minister of sports became the first woman and the first African to be elected president of the International ...

The organization’s members elected Kirsty Coventry as its 10th president on Thursday, selecting the Zimbabwean sports minister and member of its executive board to succeed Thomas Bach. Coventry, 41, ...

COSTA NAVARINO (GREECE) - Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday declaring it to be an ...

Coventry said in 2023 that the process had been "hard, but it was worth it, to have a way forward that's going to benefit us as a country -- 110 percent it was worth it," said.

A new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been elected. Kirsty Coventry, the two-time Olympic gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, has become the first woman and ...

Former Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry, 41, was today elected as the new Olympics chief, pipping Lord Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch to the position. The election means Ms ...

Former Olympic swimming champion, Kirsty Coventry will succeed Thomas Bach as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), marking an historic milestone as the first African and ...