International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry is in the spotlight on how she handles her "baptism of fire" over ...

GENEVA – India’s push toward winning the 2036 Olympics hosting contest seemed to stall a little on Thursday in the first big decision of Kirsty Coventry’s IOC presidency. Coventry paused the ...

Kirsty Coventry made sporting history by being elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its General Assembly on March 20, 2025. On Monday (June 23, 2025) she officially ...

The IOA is hoping to get back the Olympic Solidarity grant, which was withheld last year by the IOC for infighting within the ...

FILE -Kirsty Coventry reacts after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, March 20, 2025.

Now, at age 41, the seven-time Olympic medalist Coventry is the first female IOC president, the first IOC president from an African nation and the youngest person in the role in a century.

LAUSANNE — The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization’s 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic ...

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. Risks and challenges ...

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry is in the spotlight on how she handles her "baptism of fire" over ...