PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) -The stunning first-round election of Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry as the next International Olympic Committee president made her the first female and first African to lead ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johan Eliasch of skiing, cycling's David Lappartient and Morinari Watanabe of gymnastics. In the end Coventry’s 49 total votes dwarfed Samaranch, who received 28, while Coe only received eight ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. Coventry, 41 ...

Zimbabwean Coventry wins with 49 out of 97 votes Samaranch ... appealed to the French sports minister and UEFA for his former club Paris St Germain to pay him 55 million euros in unpaid wages ...

First African and female IOC president Focus on transparency and new sports for youth Aims to enhance athlete representation PYLOS, Greece, March 20 (Reuters) - Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic ...

Zimbabwean former swimmer Kirsty Coventry has become the first female president of the International Olympic Committee. Coventry needed only one round of voting to clinch the race to succeed ...

Kirsty Coventry hopes her election as the first female and African president of the International Olympic Committee - beating six male candidates including Britain's Lord Coe - sends a "powerful ...

The lake's reappearance brings both opportunities and hurdles. For the Tachi Yokut Tribe, who called it "Pa'ashi" or "Big Water," the lake's return has restored sacred connections. The recharge has ...