Seb Coe bids for Olympic throne in fiercely contested seven-way vote - Lord Coe is up against Juan Antonio Samaranch, whose ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to ...

Lord Coe was beaten to the presidency by Zimbabwean former swimmer Kirsty Coventry in a battle for the most powerful post in ...

Here is the breakdown of votes by the members of the International Olympic Committee to elect Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry as ...

Coe finished a distant third in the race for the prestigious role leading the Olympic movement after making enemies inside ...

IOC presidential candidate Juan Antonio Samaranch has played down his possible status as favorite on the eve of voting ...

President Thomas Bach, who has been more lenient with Russia, likely prefers another candidate to Coe heading toward the Los ...

There are 109 members present in the IOC. A candidate needs an absolute majority, i.e. more than 50% votes, to win the ...

The International Olympic Committee kicked of its session in Olympia, site of the ancient Games, on Tuesday that will ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and become the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports. The Zimbabwe sports ...

The race to become world sport's most powerful figure has entered the finishing straight with International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in Greece to elect a new president for the first time since ...

It was the most open and hard-to-call IOC presidential election in decades with Coventry expected to lead the first round short of an absolute majority. Though several rounds of votes were widely ...