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As sports embrace gender tests, Kirsty Coventry and IOC may follow
Such testing has its critics and the Olympics have already tried it once only to abandon it in 1996. Read more at ...
Kirsty Coventry becomes IOC's first female president
Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry was elected as the first woman and the first person from Africa to the post of International ...
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Coventry’s tenure begins for Olympics
The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role on Monday. The ceremony was on the Olympic body’s 131st birthday with praise for Coventry from her ...
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The coronation ceremony of Coventry, the first female head of the IOC, handed over by Chairman Bach
Kirsty Coventry, the new chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), started her four-year official term on the ...
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Bach passes torch to Coventry
The Zimbabwean officially became the new president of the International Olympic Committee on Monday, a nomination that took ...
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Olympic chief Kirsty Coventry's steeliness honed by hard knocks
First impressions can be deceptive but Kirsty Coventry showed that behind a sunny disposition she will have the mettle to ...