Newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry celebrated on return home to Zimbabwe

Power of athletes matters, not their skin colour: Coventry

It was a crowded lobby of Al Habtoor Grand in Dubai few years back where Kirsty Coventry - a former world champion swimmer and the most decorated Olympian from Africa - was switching between two roles with equal poise. If she was exchanging pleasantries with a top-notch Emirati sports official at one moment, the owner of seven Olympic medals and her husband Tyrone were busy checking out if their six-month-old daughter was at peace with the nanny…

The new IOC boss and her Kiwi connections

The surprise election of Kirsty Coventry as president of the most powerful sports body in the world gives Barbara Kendall goosebumps.“It’s one of the most monumental events in the history of women’s leadership in sport,” she says. “I’m shocked and I don’t think the magnitude of it all will hit her for a while, either. All this – and she’s got a four-month-old baby.”Kendall’s friend and colleague in sports leadership, double Olympic swimming cham…

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Hero's welcome for new IOC chief

Newly elected International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero's welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone. The southern African country has faced years of isolation and sanctions by the United States and other Western...

Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding, and the IOC

The International Olympic Committee, the sporting world’s equivalent of a white-collar crime family, has made its decision on who will succeed the outgoing president, Thomas Bach. Representatives gathered in Greece at Costa Navarino, to make their decision. From the list of seven candidates, former Zimbabwean athlete and winner of seven medals, Kirsty Coventry, received the minimum number of votes for a first-round win: 49 of the 97 cast. She ha…

‘Proud moment for all Africa’: Gayton McKenzie celebrates Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry's on historic IOC presidency