Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero's welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone.

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday, becoming the Switzerland-based organization’s first woman and first African leader. “This is an extraordinary moment,

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, securing victory in a high-stakes vote at a luxury seaside resort in Greece’s southwestern Peloponnese. The Zimbabwean needed only one round of voting to clinch the race to succeed Thomas Bach,