Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), says its members have shown "overwhelming ...

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 ...

Kirsty Coventry can remember the spot in her living room 33 years ago when, shortly after getting out of the pool and still wearing her swimsuit, she watched TV coverage of the Barcelona Olympics and ...

IOC President Thomas Bach, right, and President-elect Kirsty Coventry arrive for the handover ceremony of the IOC Presidency at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, June 23, 2025.

New International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry pledged on Monday to strengthen and extend the reach of the Games, as Zimbabwe's Olympic swimming champion took over from Thomas Bach in a ...

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.

Former Zimbabwean swimming gold medallist Kirsty Coventry attended her first Executive Board on Wednesday, two days after she ...

Coventry will now serve an eight-year term. In her first speech as IOC president, she praised the “passion and purpose” of her predecessor and thanked him for keeping the Olympic movement “united in ...

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 ...

The International Olympic Committee says it paid its president Thomas Bach's income and expenses of $350,000 in 2024.

Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medallist in swimming for Zimbabwe, finally and formally takes office Tuesday aged just 41 after decisively winning a seven-candidate election in March to succeed ...

On Monday she was handed the golden key to the IOC by Bach, who was the organisation's president for 12 years. "I am really ...