The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role on Monday.

The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president is already very different to the one she was elected in three months ago.

Kirsty Coventry broke several barriers when she became the president of the International Olympic Committee on Monday, as she is both the first woman and first African person to hold the position.

I believe her style is going to fit perfectly with Utah,” Bullock, president and executive chair of Utah’s Organizing Committee for the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, told the Deseret News ...

New International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry is establishing working groups to examine the process for ...

Former Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry took over the leadership of the International Olympic Committee from Thomas Bach in a ceremony on Monday with the 2028 Los Angeles Games already threatening ...

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry was elected as the first woman and the first person from Africa to the post of International Olympic Committee president in March. Kirsty Coventry made sporting history ...

Kirsty Coventry, the new IOC president, discussed the "unanimous" support to protect women's sports amid transgender athlete concerns in her first official address on Thursday.

India’s push toward winning the 2036 Olympics hosting contest seemed to stall a little on Thursday in the first big decision of Kirsty Coventry’s IOC presidency. Coventry paused the fast tracking of a ...

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee, says its members have shown "overwhelming support" to protecting the female category in sport. Speaking on Thursday, she said ...

The International Olympic Committee will take the lead in discussions on gender eligibility criteria in sports, its new President Kirsty Coventry said on Thursday, four years after the ruling body had ...

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.