Finding out which cities will host future Olympic Games is usually an exciting and somewhat conventional event. But Wednesday's announcement from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was less ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and first African ...

Kirsty Coventry will become the 10th International Olympic Committee president - but why is she both a groundbreaking and ...

The voters in the exclusive invited club of IOC members include royal family members, former lawmakers and diplomats, business leaders, sports officials and Olympic athletes. Even an Oscar-winning ...

Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero’s welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone.

Kirsty Coventry was elected the new president of the International Olympic Committee Thursday. Coventry, 41, becomes the first woman and first African named president of the IOC. "It is a signal ...

The voters in the exclusive invited club of IOC members include royal family members, former lawmakers and diplomats, business leaders, sports officials and Olympic athletes. Even an Oscar-winning ...

Bullock and other Utah Olympics officials are well aware of what Coventry will bring to the IOC, having already worked closely with the new president on organization commissions, including the ...

Coventry was reminded Thursday that just moments after Bach was elected IOC president in Buenos Aires in 2013 a Russian official raced toward him and handed him a cell phone. Putin was on the ...

The IOC last month granted provisional recognition ... and commitment of all of the national federations, boxers, coaches, officials and boxing leaders that have worked together to enable this ...

The sport had passed a major hurdle when the IOC Executive Board on Monday recognised World Boxing as the federation to oversee the sport. It ends years of divisions over the way the sport ...