In an historic election, Zimbabwean swimming icon Kirsty Coventry was chosen as the first woman and first African president ...

After the stunning election win comes the sober business of leading the International Olympic Committee for Kirsty Coventry.

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- 2020 Tokyo Olympic women's shot put champion Gong Lijiao is among 35 athletes selected to represent China at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing next ...

Hannah Mills, right, and Ben Ainslie are among the signatories of a letter urging the next IOC president to prioritise caring for the planet (Handout from SailGP/PA) More than 400 Olympic athletes ...

More than 400 Olympic athletes have urged the next president of the International Olympic Committee to prioritise tackling climate change, describing it as a “current and growing harm to the ...

Twice Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge will run the Sydney Marathon in August, he said on Thursday. The 40-year-old Kenyan, who won back-to-back Olympic titles in 2016 and 2020, became in ...

March 13 (Reuters) - India's unseeded Lakshya Sen stunned Jonatan Christie 21-13 21-10 to knock out the reigning men's champion at the All England Open on Thursday and progress to the quarter ...

GENEVA (AP) — Sign stealing in baseball. Match fixing in soccer. Doping allegations in swimming. Now ski jumping has its own scandal. Cheating by Norway team officials manipulating ski suits has ...

=Marius Lindvik, of Norway, soars through the air during his first round jump of the ski jumping men's team large hill competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway ...