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

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

As Kirsty Coventry succeeds Thomas Bach as IOC president, Juan Antonio Samaranch Senior's legacy is remembered on ...

Incoming and outgoing International Olympic Committee presidents Kirsty Coventry and Thomas Bach will salute each other in ...

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry was elected as the first woman and the first person from Africa to the post of International ...

History making and Zimbabwe's most decorated Olympian Kirsty Coventry has officially taken the helm of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) becoming the first woman ever to lead the global ...

Samaranch Senior's earlier career exercised many people when he was IOC chief. After Franco's death and the restoration of the monarchy, Samaranch Senior went on to be ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Samaranch Senior -- whose son of the same name finished runner-up to Coventry in the IOC presidential election in March -- did, like Coventry, serve in a controversial regime prior to being ...

Olympic history was written today in a highly symbolic and emotional ceremony at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, to mark the handover of the presidency of ...

The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president ...