A champion of sport development in Africa, Coventry has pledged to expand Olympic participation and ensure the Games remain relevant to younger generations. She also inherits the complex task of ...

Zimbabwe's sports minister Kirsty Coventry is elected as the new IOC president, becoming the first woman and first African to ...

Coventry claimed her first Olympic medals at the 2004 Athens Games, winning gold in the 200m backstroke, silver in the 100m backstroke, and bronze in the 200m individual medley. She continued her ...

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry says she is against banning countries from Olympics over wars and ...

Australia’s Olympic bosses say Kirsty Coventry’s ascension to IOC president is a watershed moment, but her election leaves a ...

Indian Olympic Association’s PT Usha said Kirsty Coventry’s role as the International Olympic Committee’s president will ...

Prior to Russia's ban from international figure skating, the Russians had won more medals at the world championships than any ...

The formal handover is on Olympic Day, June 23 ... meeting in 2023 in Mumbai that promoted ambitions for India to host the Summer Games. A key decision for the Coventry-led IOC is finding a host for ...

Kirsty Coventry transitioned from Olympic champion to IOC president with her lifelong commitment to the transformative power ...

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 ...

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