Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41.

Artist impressions of the National Aquatics Centre proposed for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games. Credit: Archipelago ...

Wasserman shared the spotlight at the 144th IOC session Thursday with Kirsty Coventry, who became the first woman and first African to be elected president of the body. Coventry, the sports minister ...

Inspiration travels over 7,000km, across continents and water bodies, through a television set and into the excited heart of a nine-year-old girl. It’s a summer of Olympic swimming in Barcelona ...

"It is a signal that we are truly global," the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist ... four presidents of sports governing bodies: Track and field's Sebastian ...

“It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist ... presidents of sports governing bodies: Track and field's Sebastian ...

“It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist ... presidents of sports governing bodies: Track and field’s Sebastian ...

“It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist said. Hers was a stunning first-round win in the seven-candidate contest ...

“It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist ... presidents of sports governing bodies: Track and field’s Sebastian ...

At 41, the two-time Olympic swimming champion is also the youngest person ever to be elected to the most powerful position in sports governance. The Zimbabwean Sports Minister succeeds Thomas Bach, ...