Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the country’s military boss to replace Kirsty Coventry as sports minister ...

Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International ... "It is a signal that we are truly global," the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist said.

Ms. Coventry, 41, from Zimbabwe, was the only woman among the ... “The vast majority of I.O.C. members voted for Kirsty Coventry,” he said. “And that meant they had an idea they wanted ...

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 ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry arrived Sunday in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero’s welcome as her victory is celebrated as a ...

(AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli) Newly elected International Olympic Committee IOC President Kirsty Coventry welcomed by officials at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday ...

“It’s not just my success, it is our success. We broke down barriers,” Coventry said in Zimbabwe. Dancers in animal fur kilts and head gear made from bird feathers stomped the ground as part ...

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. IOC members ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected the new president of ... "Now we have got some work together." Coventry was Zimbabwe’s sports minister, and outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach had advocated for ...

Kirsty Coventry will become the IOC's 10th president ... position she could have never imagined back in her home country of Zimbabwe at nine years old, when she set a goal to go to the Olympics.