Coventry, new president of the IOC, makes history
Kirsty Coventry, Sports Minister of Zimbabue and Olympic Champion in Swimming in 2004 and 2008, has been chosen as the new president of the International Olympic Committee. The African candidate is the first woman and also the first in the history of her continent to reach the position with more power in world sport. The new COI leader has imposed, in the first vote, the other two favorites, the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch and the British Sebastian Coe. The new 41 -year -old president has achieved victory in the vote of the IOC, in her 144th session, held this Thursday in Greece in a luxury resort in Costa Navarino, in the Peloponnesian. The rest of the candidates, among which two, the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch – whose father, with the same name presided, presided over the IOC between 1980 and 2001— and the British Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics and Olympic champion in Athletics in 1980 and 1984. To his mentor, the German Thomas Bach.
