Coventry will be the first woman and the first African to serve as IOC President. She will assume office after the handover from President Thomas Bach on Olympic Day, June 23. “We congratulate ...

BRUSSELS, March 31 (Reuters) - German online ticket marketplace Ticombo has filed a complaint about the International Olympic Committee to EU antitrust regulators, alleging that the IOC's ...

She will begin her eight-year term in charge of the IOC in June. IOL has previously reported that moments after Coventry was elected the 10th president of the IOC, she told the audience at the ...

In an election that had been expected to last at least five rounds, the 41-year-old Coventry – the preferred candidate of outgoing IOC chief Thomas Bach – won 49 of 97 available votes on the ...

She will take charge as IOC president from Bach on June 23 -- the Olympic Day, after three months of transition period. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has submitted the 'expression of ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece – The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new chief Kirsty Coventry said on March 20 that “communication will be key” with US President Donald Trump in the run ...

“This is an extraordinary moment,” said Coventry. Coventry was thought to be in a tight-run race with IOC veteran Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. and World Athletics president Sebastian Coe for the ...

The incoming IOC president has revealed to Sky News she is against banning countries from the Olympics over wars and will open talks on Russia's potential return to the Games. Only Russians ...

Coe, 68, had said occupying the Olympic Movement's highest office was a role he had been "training for for the best part of his life", but a majority of IOC members instead gave their backing to ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She is the first woman, first African, and the youngest person to lead the IOC in its 131-year history.

Kirsty Coventry reacts as she delivers a speech after being elected as the new IOC president.Credit: Getty Images “She’s very measured, she’s thoughtful … and very reasonable,” said ...

Zimbabwean candidate for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Kirsty Coventry delivers a speech after being elected uring the 144th IOC Session on the day of the election of ...