Kirsty Coventry
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Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward is a Zimbabwean politician, sports administrator, and former competitive swimmer who is the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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With so many wars and conflicts affecting millions of innocent people all around the world, sport has the ability to bring the whole world together in peaceful competition
IOC President welcomes NOC of Palestine to Olympic House,01 October 2025
This venue is going to be beautiful, and in a few months’ time will be welcoming athletes from all around the world. And you must be proud because it really is a stunning Village.
IOC President impressed with Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Village: “Makes me want to become a winter athlete!”,18 September 2025
I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.
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Janet EvansAlso won Honda Sports Award for Swimming & DivingPoliticians born in the 1980s 1
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Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward is a Zimbabwean politician, sports administrator, and former competitive swimmer who is the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She has served as the president of the IOC since 23 June 2025, and is the first woman, the first Zimbabwean, and the first African to hold the office, while also only the second non-European president of the IOC, following Avery Brundage who left office in 1972.
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