Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic champion to president of the IOC
Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer turned sports administrator, was on Thursday elected as the new president of the ...
IOC presidential election LIVE: Seb Coe bids for Olympic throne in fiercely contested seven-way vote
Lord Coe is up against Juan Antonio Samaranch, whose father was IOC president for 21 years, and Zimbabwean former swimmer ...
Just one round of voting needed to elect new IOC president
Only one round of voting was required on Thursday to elect the next president of the International Olympic Committee with the ...
From geopolitical Jenga to gender politics: The challenges facing the next IOC President
On Thursday, one of seven contenders will come to occupy great responsibility when they are elected as the 10th president of ...
Kristy Coventry becomes first woman, African to lead IOC
Kirsty Coventry, the Olympic swimmer from Zimbabwe, was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday ...
Kirsty Coventry wins seven-way battle to become first female IOC president
The five-time Olympian was known to be the preferred candidate of the outgoing president, Thomas Bach, and required just one ...
Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president, becoming first woman and first African to lead the Olympic body
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 ...
Kirsty Coventry becomes first woman, first African to be elected IOC president
Kirsty Coventry has been elected the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee. The 41-year-old Zimbabwean was ...