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.

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry becomes the first woman and the first person from Africa to be elected to the post. The former swimming star succeeds the outgoing president, Thomas Bach of Germany ...

In a field of seven candidates, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, Africa's most decorated Olympian, could make history as the first woman to head the IOC. However, since becoming Zimbabwe's sports ...

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

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

The Olympic women's soccer tournament will be bigger than the men's edition for the first time in 2028, the International ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

This week on The Sound Kitchen you'll hear the answer to the question about the seven-time Olympic medallist Kirsty Coventry .

Pope Francis, who died on Monday aged 88, inspired International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to create the ...

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 ...