Coventry detailed her vision for an IOC presidency — one of if not the most powerful in global sport — in her candidate manifesto published last December (soon after she gave birth to her second daughter, Lily). She wrote that she was guided by the collaborative Ubuntu philosophy: I am because we are.

The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role on Monday

Olympic Day was the official handover between outgoing International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and his successor Kirsty Coventry. Coventry is the first female and first African IOC president and will face issues of climate crisis and global unrest as she moves the Olympic movement forward.