Following the IOC’s recommendations in late February 2022, the majority of global sports federations decided to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from all international sports tournaments.

As IOC’s first female and first African president, Kirsty Coventry, will look to leave a glowing legacy and some of the issues that need her attention are 2028 Olympics, gender equality and India’s ...

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

GENEVA (AP) — The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president is already very different to the one she was elected ...

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.

GENEVA (AP) — The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president is already very different to the one she was elected in ...