The first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization's 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic movement was "in the best of hands.

Coventry detailed her vision for an IOC presidency in her candidate manifesto published last December (soon after she gave birth to her second daughter, Lily). She wrote that she was guided by the collaborative Ubuntu philosophy: I am because we are.

Kirsty Coventry has made history by being inaugurated as the first woman and first African president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday,