Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee and become the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports. The Zimbabwe sports ...

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry was elected as the first woman and the first person from Africa to the post of International Olympic Committee president in March. She has now taken over from Thomas Bach of ...

IOC President Kirsty Coventry wrote that the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will be "a new model" as she looks forward to the ...

The International Olympic Committee moves a step closer to introducing a blanket ban on transgender women from female ...

Sebastian Coe’s suggestion of adding cyclo-cross and cross-country to the Winter Olympics has been met with resistance by ...

In the past, each Olympic sport’s international federation has been allowed to set its own rules on transgender inclusion.

Coventry, a former swimmer with seven Olympic medals who became the first woman to head the International Olympic Committee, ...

GENEVA -- India's push toward winning the 2036 Olympics hosting contest seemed to stall a little on Thursday in the first big decision of Kirsty Coventry's IOC presidency. Coventry paused the fast ...

Dismissing the IOC's idea of including Summer disciplines into the Olympic programme, traditionally featuring snow and ice, ...

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry is poised to act on a key election platform, by introducing a ...