From winning her first gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 to becoming the first woman and the first African ...

Kirsty Coventry’s historic ascent to the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is being hailed as the game ...

Behind closed doors inside a resort in western Greece, International Olympic Committee members elected the first female ...

A two-time Olympic champion (seven medals in total), she takes over the IOC presidency at the age of 41, as the first woman, ...

An in tray of Olympic challenges spanning political, social, sporting and operational issues awaits the next International ...

Kirsty Coventry is the new President of the IOC (International Olympic Committee), and for the first time in history, a woman ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to ...

If you were looking to avoid uncomfortable scrutiny, you could hardly choose a better location than Costa Navarino, this ...

In an unexpected landslide victory, the Zimbabwean sports minister and former swimming champion was elected the International ...

You can already hear a 78-year-old yet ever-spritely Bruce McAvaney calling it, just as he did with Cathy Freeman.

China offers its support to first woman to lead the Olympic Movement, but she will arrive to a challenging in-tray Kirsty ...