Score it a big win for women’s soccer at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The International Olympic Committee has decided that ...

Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer turned sports administrator, was on Thursday elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee, marking an historic milestone as the ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, emerging from a contentious seven-candidate race Thursday to take hold of one of the ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — The IOC is the undisputed champion of running the most tightly managed sports election, one compared by veteran Olympic watchers to a conclave to pick a pope.

One of Coventry’s beaten election rivals, Sebastian Coe, leads World Athletics. It broke an Olympic taboo by paying $50,000 prize money for track and field champions in Paris last year. In Los Angeles ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa's most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Mixed teams are coming to golf at the Los Angeles Olympics. The International Olympic Committee made it ...

By Tariq Panja Reporting from the International Olympic Committee meeting in Costa Navarino, Greece Kirsty Coventry was elected on Thursday as the 10th president of the International Olympic ...

Berkin Usta, an Olympic alpine skier who competed in the Beijing Games, and his father were tragically killed in a hotel fire ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 with assistance from neighboring Belarus, the IOC under its outgoing president, Thomas Bach, banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competition, ...

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 ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee on the first ballot, making her the first woman to lead the organization.