Sebastian Coe's bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee has ended in defeat, with Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe winning the vote. Coe, 68, had said occupying the Olympic ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She is the first woman, first African, and the youngest person to lead the IOC in its 131-year history.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has had an eventful career, from the pool, to parliament. The country's former dictator, Robert Mugabe, called her "a golden ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected the new president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday. Coventry, 41, becomes the first woman and first African named president of the IOC. "It is a signal ...

It was a win as resounding as it was historic - Kirsty Coventry becoming the first African and the first woman to assume the most powerful and prestigious role in sport. The double Olympic ...

ITV News' Chloe Keedy reports from Greece where Kirsty Coventry has been elected IOC's first female and first African President since its creation. Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the new ...

Lord Coe suffered a crushing defeat in his bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee, with Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry routing her six rivals in the first round of voting to ...

Former Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry, 41, was today elected as the new Olympics chief, pipping Lord Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch to the position. The election means Ms ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece — 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 ...

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 ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, emerging from a contentious seven-candidate race Thursday to take hold of one of ...

COSTA NAVARINO (AFP) – Kirsty Coventry says she has "learned the best lessons by failing" and the Zimbabwean swimming great's mantra appears to have served her well after she became the first ...