Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), making her the first woman and the first African to hold the top job in world sports.
Coventry surprisingly got an overall majority in the first round of voting by the IOC membership from seven candidates.
The 41-year-old succeeds German Thomas Bach, whose tenure ends after 12 years.
Bach will step down on 23 June, with Coventry, who was said to be Bach’s preferred candidate,…
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