Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, the new president of the International Olympic Committee, met with Salt Lake City Mayor Erin ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed Kirsty Coventry, the newly elected President of the International Olympic ...

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), says its members have shown "overwhelming ...

The International Olympic Committee on Monday officially inaugurated Kirsty Coventry, 41, as the first female and African president. Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming for Zimbabwe ...

FILE -Kirsty Coventry reacts after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, March 20, 2025.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization's 131st birthday with praise that the ...

Coventry won back-to-back titles in 200-meters backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing four years later. She joined the IOC in 2013, almost one year after a disputed athlete election at ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday, becoming the Switzerland-based organization’s first woman and first African leader.

Kirsty Coventry becomes the first woman, the first African and the youngest person to be elected as IOC president. The two-time Olympic swimming champion for Zimbabwe, 41, ...

By GRAHAM DUNBAR GENEVA, Switzerland — The world Kirsty Coventry walks into June 23 as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president is already very different ...