Boxing will feature in the Olympic Games in 2028. After the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended that boxing be included in the Los Angeles schedule, the IOC ...

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Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and the first African to lead the organisation in its 131-year history. She ...

A new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been elected. Kirsty Coventry, the two-time Olympic gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, has become the first woman and ...

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. "It is a ...

Buried beneath the surface of the lush Victoria Park precinct lies a potential billion-dollar problem for the site’s Olympic hopes. Just days before the state government unveils its Olympic ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall of the organization that was founded in 1894. IOC members ...

First African and female IOC president Focus on transparency and new sports for youth Aims to enhance athlete representation PYLOS, Greece, March 20 (Reuters) - Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The IOC is set to hold its most open presidential contest in modern times, AP explains This combo of Jan. 30 ...

When Seb Coe arrives in the soft-furnished auditorium of the luxurious Costa Navarino resort in Greece, where Thursday’s IOC presidential election will be held, he will know this is his one-and ...

A search operation was launched involving divers to trace the missing persons. Three women and four children went missing after a boat ferrying them capsized in Matatila Dam in Madhya Pradesh's ...