KIRSTY Coventry now holds the most powerful role in sports when she was elected as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee.
Coventry, 41, from Zimbabwe, was the only woman among the seven candidates in the months-long election battle and will be the committee’s youngest president since Baron Pierre de Coubertin, their co-founder in the late 19th century.
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