Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry (C) won two Olympic gold medals during her decorated swimming career. File Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI March 20 (UPI) --International Olympic Committee members elected ...

Kirsty Coventry can remember the spot in her living room 33 years ago when, shortly after getting out of the pool and still wearing her swimsuit, she watched TV coverage of the Barcelona Olympics and ...

HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean soccer player drowned in a crocodile infested river during a ritual to cleanse his team of bad spirits before a match, a state newspaper said on Tuesday. The Chronicle ...

Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has been elected to head the International Olympic Committee. The two-time gold medalist is marking a... Zimbabwean millennial Kirsty Coventry gets Olympic ...

Kirsty Coventry, one of the most-decorated athletes in Auburn University history, has been elected as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee. The 41-year-old Coventry, a native of ...

ALGIERS, July 17 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's double Olympic champion Kirsty Coventry won her fifth swimming gold at the All Africa Games after another evening in which South Africa dominated swimming in ...

Former Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has been awarded the top job at the international sporting body, becoming the first female president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in its history.

Lord Coe suffered a crushing defeat in his bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee, with Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry routing her six rivals in the first round of voting to seize ...

March 20 (UPI) --International Olympic Committee members elected Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry as president, replacing Thomas Bach, the committee announced Thursday. Coventry will be the first woman and ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has had an eventful career, from the pool, to parliament. The country's former dictator, Robert Mugabe, called her "a golden girl, ...