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New IOC president Kirsty Coventry inaugurated to start 8-year leadership
The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role on Monday ...
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Kirsty Coventry Inaugurated As First Female, African President Of IOC
Kirsty Coventry has made history by being inaugurated as the first woman and first African president of the International ...
Work begins for new IOC head after ceremony
The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role Monday on the ...
Kirsty Coventry starts IOC president term, reflects on Olympic swimming journey from Zimbabwe
Coventry detailed her vision for an IOC presidency in her candidate manifesto published last December (soon after she gave ...
As sports embrace gender tests, Kirsty Coventry and IOC may follow
Such testing has its critics and the Olympics have already tried it once only to abandon it in 1996. Read more at ...
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Woman at the helm: on the new IOC president Kirsty Coventry
The first African and the first woman head of the largest, most powerful sporting organisation on the planet, Kirsty Coventry, 41, broke new ground in more ways than one when she formally took charge ...
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IPC President Andrew Parsons attends IOC Presidency handover ceremony
Andrew Parsons, an IOC Member, was in Lausanne, Switzerland, as Kirsty Coventry became the 10th President of the ...
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IOC boss Kirsty Coventry assumes helm after school of hard knocks
First impressions can mislead, but Kirsty Coventry has already proven she’s more than just a friendly face. When she takes ...