The IOC is betting on a younger female leader to signal change. She enters the ring at a crucial time for athletes.

Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero’s welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone.

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

Zimbabwe's Sports Minister and double Olympic swimming champion, Kirsty Coventry, is the first African and youngest person, at 41, to assume the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...

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

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. Coventry, 41 ...

Lord Coe has announced the move from the World Athletics Council in what he describes at the latest step to protect female category ...

“It’s not just my success, it is our success. We broke down barriers,” Coventry said in Zimbabwe. Dancers in animal fur kilts and head gear made from bird feathers stomped the ground as part ...

Newly Elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry Celebrated on Return Home to Zimbabwe HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry arrived Sunday ...