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

Sofya Velikaya is one of the world's most successful fencers, having won multiple Olympic medals. Now, after a long absence, ...

Still, Coventry inherits an IOC with a solid reputation and finances after a widely praised 2024 Paris Olympics, plus a slate of summer and winter hosts for the next decade.

Nita Ambani, the philanthropist wife of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, has been an IOC member since 2016 and helped promote India’s Olympic bid in Paris last year. She and Coventry are seen as being ...