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In a surprisingly emphatic result, 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe’s Sport Minister, was selected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its 144th session in Greece.

Australian Olympic officials laud Kirsty Coventry's historic appointment as IOC president, but it leaves a hole to be filled for Brisbane's 2032 Games.

The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee reaches a climax on Thursday with Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, Sebastian Coe and Kirsty Coventry believed to be neck and neck but clear of the remaining quartet.

World Boxing has reached ‘an advanced stage’ of its investigation into the gender eligibility row at last year’s Olympics and expects to announce its findings in a matter of ‘weeks rather than months’

A new president of the IOC will be elected Thursday as just the 10th leader in its 131-year history after one of the most open Olympic elections in decades

The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee reaches a climax on Thursday with Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, Sebastian Coe and Kirsty Coventry believed to be neck and neck but clear of the remaining quartet.

The world had its eyes on Sydney in 2000. A million people lined the harbour to ring in the new millennium (though some said it was actually the final year of the old one) on January 1.

Algerian Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif, at the centre of a gender row at the Paris Games, is targeting a second gold in Los Angeles and says she will not be intimidated by Donald Trump.

Seven-time Olympic medallist Kirsty Coventry vowed to use the memories of her trials and tribulations as an aspiring athlete in Zimbabwe to improve the lot of up-and-coming youngsters if she were to be elected as the next president of the International Olympic Committee. (IOC).