A champion of sport development in Africa, Coventry has pledged to expand Olympic participation and ensure the Games remain ...

International Olympic Committee's newly-elected President Kirsty Coventry wants to sit down with United States President ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday, becoming the ...

Coventry was the back-to-back Olympic champion in the 200-meter backstroke in 2004 and 2008. She retired from swimming after ...

Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer turned sports administrator, was on Thursday elected as the new president of the ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first ...

A seven-times Olympic medallist, Coventry won 200m backstroke gold at the 2004 Athens Games and again in Beijing four years later. She was added to the IOC's Athletes’ Commission in 2012 ...

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

After the stunning election win comes the sober business of leading the International Olympic Committee for Kirsty Coventry.

A new 60,000-seat Olympic stadium in inner-city parkland and a rowing venue in a crocodile-inhabited river have been unveiled ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece -- Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became ...