One of the candidates to lead the International Olympic Committee Kirsty Coventry has backed a blanket prohibition for so-called transgender athletes participating in events against members of the ...

Next month, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will elect a new president.

Paris (AFP) – Former swimming great Kirsty ... Zimbabwe, the 2023 election was the first time in over 20 or 30 years where there was no violence. "That's a step in the right direction." Coventry ...

while former Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry is thought to be Bach’s preferred candidate. Zimbabwean Coventry would be the first woman, and first African, to hold the IOC presidency if elected.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Only a few people around the world know the name Thomas Bach and even fewer can rattle off those of the seven candidates out to replace him in March after 12 years as president ...

A decorated Olympian, and a two-time gold medalist with a total of seven medals, Kirsty Coventry has served as ... Looking at specifically Zimbabwe, the 2023 election was the first time in over ...

Kirsty Coventry (ZIM ... administration since retiring from the pool in 2016, becoming Zimbabwe's sports minister in 2019. Coventry has been an IOC member since 2013 and she has chaired the ...

BERLIN – International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential candidate Kirsty Coventry ... she said on Jan 27. Coventry, a two-time Olympic swimming champion, is also Zimbabwe’s Sports Minister ...

Kirsty Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and sports minister of Zimbabwe, is running for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Despite her long-standing rapport with ...