Kirsty Coventry’s rise to political importance as a white woman in a black majority Zimbabwe shows how sport is able to reshape race and power.

Analysis - Kirsty Coventry's story is one of apparent contradictions. She's a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a ...

Her poor performance as Zimbabwe's sports minister and her leaning into the role of the soft face of Zimbabwe's brutal regime ...

Two brothers have been arrested and appeared in a Zimbabwe court accused of an armed robbery at the home of new International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry’s parents.

Kirsty Coventry, 41, of Zimbabwe becomes the first woman to lead the IOC. She is eligible to serve up to a 12-year term.

Many Zimbabweans question why Coventry was unable to reverse the decay of the country’s badly neglected sports facilities ...

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

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 ...

The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa’s most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political ...

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.

Newly elected International Olympic Committee IOC President Kirsty Coventry, second from right, is welcomed by officials at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday ...