Newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry celebrated on return home to Zimbabwe
Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero ...
Kirsty Coventry—the Soft Face of Zimbabwe's Dictatorship—Could Be the Next President of the IOC | Opinion
Her poor performance as Zimbabwe's sports minister and her leaning into the role of the soft face of Zimbabwe's brutal regime ...
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Kirsty Coventry makes history as first woman elected IOC president
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female ... multi-round voting process during the IOC session at a luxury resort in Pyros, Greece. She received 49 of the 97 votes, well ...
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Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president, becoming first woman and first African to lead the Olympic body
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 ...
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Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry elected as 1st-ever female IOC president
Kirsty Coventry will become the IOC's 10th president after members from ... she could have never imagined back in her home country of Zimbabwe at nine years old, when she set a goal to go to ...
The New York Times5d
Kirsty Coventry becomes first woman, first African to be elected IOC president
Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the first woman president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Africa’s most decorated Olympian and Zimbabwe’s minister of sport since 2018 secured ...
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Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president and is first woman to lead the global Olympic body
COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry ... standards of the IOC. It was the most open and hard-to-call IOC presidential election in decades with Coventry expected to lead the first ...
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Kirsty Coventry becomes first woman, African elected as IOC president
March 20 (UPI) --International Olympic Committee members elected Zimbabwe's Kirsty ... "Congratulations to Kirsty Coventry on her election as the 10th IOC president," Bach said.
CNN5d
Kirsty Coventry elected new IOC president, becomes first woman and African in the role
Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the ... Before becoming a member of the IOC, she was a standout athlete for Zimbabwe. Coventry has won seven of the country’s eight Olympic medals to date.
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Kirsty Coventry becomes first woman to be elected IOC president
"It is a signal that we are truly global," the Zimbabwe sports minister and ... seven-candidate contest after voting by 97 IOC members. Kirsty Coventry was elected as IOC President, over fellow ...
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Olympic gold medalist Kirsty Coventry makes IOC history as first female president
Kirsty Coventry was elected the new president ... "Now we have got some work together." Coventry was Zimbabwe’s sports minister, and outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach had advocated for her ...
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Kirsty Coventry Will Lead Olympics as I.O.C.’s First Female President
Coventry, a former Olympic swimming champion who has been Zimbabwe’s sports minister ... Committee meeting in Costa Navarino, Greece Kirsty Coventry was elected on Thursday as the 10th president ...