Coventry, a multiple swimming Olympic champion and her country's sports minister, was long seen as incumbent Bach's preferred ...

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the ...

The success recorded by Coventry at the IOC election was a vindication of the good support Africa got under Bach as well as the fillips enjoyed by the women’s folk under the tenure of the German.

With the formal election of Curtis Coventry, a former swimming champion from Zimbabwe, as his successor, a fresh hope emerges for Olympic reforms driven by a new generation of leadership. The legacy ...

Kirsty Coventry’s election as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a landmark moment, symbolising a ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 with assistance from neighboring Belarus, the IOC under its outgoing president, Thomas ...

Kirsty Coventry, the first woman president in the IOC's history, begins her leadership with a focus on gender equality and ...

Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach touted the progress made on diversity, climate change and ...

GREECE — Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry, the first African president of the International Olympic Com-mittee (IOC), can "even exceed the expectations" of the continent, said her predecessor Thomas Bach on ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. Kirsty Coventry will officially succeed Thomas Bach on June 23, but urgent issues, such as the return of ...