Zimbabwe's Sports Minister and double Olympic swimming champion, Kirsty Coventry, is the first African and youngest person, at 41, to assume the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ...

AFRICA is optimistic as the start of Kirsty Coventry’s term as the first African and female International Olympic Committee ...

Of the seven candidates running to be the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Swedish-British billionaire Johan Eliasch is something of an outlier. The 62-year-old ...

KIRSTY Leigh Coventry is set to make history as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), succeeding ...

Coventry was pitched against candidates like HRH Prince Faisal Al Hussein, David Lappartient, Johan Eliasch, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Morianari Watanabe and Lord Sebastian Coe. Kirsty received 49 ...

Johan Eliasch (Sweden-Britain), a prominent business leader and current head of the International Ski Federation; David Lappartient (France) President of the International Cycling Union ...

FIS president Johan Eliasch believes centralized marketing is key to growth and higher overall revenues but the national federations were reticent about losing control. The German Ski Association ...

The International Olympic Committee has got a new presidentThe 144th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Greece has ...

Prominent athletes in the sport drafted and signed a letter -- a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press -- that urged FIS president Johan Eliasch to "reconsider your position on CVC's ...