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IOC President-elect Kirsty Coventry applauds during the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

After historic Olympic election comes leadership issues for IOC president Kirsty Coventry

After the stunning election win comes the sober business of leading the International Olympic Committee for Kirsty Coventry.
March 21
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, and Greece's President Constantine Tassoulas arrive at the opening ceremony of the 144th IOC session, which will elect the new IOC President, at the Olympic Academy in ancient Olympia, western Greece, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Ancient Olympia hosts IOC candidates and voters two days ahead of presidential contest

March 18
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during a press conference, ahead of the 144th session which will elect the new IOC President, in Costa Navarino, southwestern Greece, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

IOC board puts boxing back on the Olympic program for LA in 2028

March 17
IOC President Thomas Bach, left, talks with former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. while touring the Olympic Village ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool, File)

Going for gold: A look at the political and sporting challenges facing the next IOC president

March 16
Candidate to the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Prince Feisal Al-Hussein speaks during a press conference following a presentation before their fellow IOC members in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan 30, 2025 (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool Photo via AP)

Olympic presidential candidate Prince Feisal sees real-world politics playing a bigger role

March 16

New IOC president Kirsty Coventry says Olympic movement shows ‘good of humanity’

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, becoming the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. The Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist described the role as a “platform to showcase the good of humanity.”
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IOC President marks one year countdown to Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Olympic chief tours Athletes’ Village in France

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach talks to the Associated Press during an interview at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

IOC’s Bach sees ‘new world order’ ahead of LA Olympics and says Trump will ‘fully support’ Games

March 7
President Donald Trump signs an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women's or girls' sporting events, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s view on transgender athletes resonates among some candidates running for IOC president

February 6
IOC President Thomas Bach attends the ceremony 'One Year To Go' for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, at the Strehler Theatre, in Milan, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

One year out from the Milan Cortina Games, Olympic chief says ‘Italy is ready.’ But is it?

February 6
Paraguay's President Santiago Pena Palacios addresses the the Summit of the Future, in the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Paraguay President Peña takes 2030 Youth Olympics bid to IOC in push to host more sports

January 31
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach speaks at the opening of the executive board meeting of the IOC, at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Looking at campaign documents for 7 IOC members running to be president of the Olympic body

December 20, 2024
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach speaks at the opening of the executive board meeting of the IOC, at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Olympics leader Bach talks up working with President-elect Trump toward 2028 Los Angeles Games

December 5, 2024
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach addresses a ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the deadly attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich by a Palestinian militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The head of the International Olympic Committee has apologized for the organization's longtime failure to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Bach said the Palestinian attack in Munich was one of "the darkest days in Olympic history" and an assault on the Olympic Games and its values. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

IOC chief sorry for not honoring 1972 Olympic attack victims

September 21, 2022
FILE - Bobsleds are parked next to the track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on Feb. 17, 2021. Costly construction delays, a leadership vacancy linked to a volatile political climate and a lack of sponsors amid a spreading financial crisis has prompted International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to acknowledge the "challenges" facing organizers for the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti, File)

IOC president Bach discusses ‘challenges’ for 2026 Games

September 16, 2022
International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach, left, talks to French President Emmanuel Macron as he leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, July 25, 2022. Tomorrow is marking two years until the Olympics are due to begin in the French capital. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool)

Paris 2024 gets Macron’s support for huge opening ceremony

July 25, 2022
FILE - "Ariagato" is displayed at the end of the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits are as difficult to untangle as the Games were to pull off. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Tokyo Olympic aftermath still being untangled a year later

July 21, 2022

Los Angeles Olympics to begin July 14, 2028

July 18, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaks during a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Zelenskyy praises IOC for supporting bans on Russian sport

July 4, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian athletes during an awarding ceremony for the Russian Olympic Committee's medalists of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing and members of the Russian Paralympic team in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Bach says Russia ban is to protect athletes, not punish them

May 20, 2022

IOC reveals more talks with Peng Shuai, plans Europe visit

May 20, 2022
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center, speaks with young athletes at the Olympics Unleashed session at the Yeronga Park Sports Centre in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Bach was in Brisbane on Saturday for the first time since the Queensland state capital was awarded the 2032 Olympics. (Jason O'Brien/AAP Image via AP)

IOC head in Brisbane for 1st time since city awarded Games

May 7, 2022
FILE - Australian Olympic team chef de mission for the Tokyo Olympics Ian Chesterman speaks at a ceremony to mark 100 days before the Tokyo Olympics begin, in Sydney on April 14, 2021. Chesterman has moved up from vice president to president in voting Saturday, April 30, 2022 to replace departing Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Chesterman elected president of Australian Olympic Committee

April 30, 2022
FILE - International Olympic Committee member Alex Gilady of Israel appears during a IOC-Tokyo 2020 1st Project Review session in Tokyo on April 3, 2014. An International Olympic Committee member from Israel who also previously served as a senior vice president of NBC Sports has died. Alex Gilady was 79. The IOC announced Gilady’s death. IOC member John Coates of Australia said Gilady died Wednesday in London. No cause of death was given. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Alex Gilady, Israeli Olympic Committee member, dies at 79

April 14, 2022
FILE - International Olympic Committee member Alex Gilady of Israel appears during a IOC-Tokyo 2020 1st Project Review session in Tokyo on April 3, 2014. An International Olympic Committee member from Israel who also previously served as a senior vice president of NBC Sports has died. Alex Gilady was 79. The IOC announced Gilady’s death. IOC member John Coates of Australia said Gilady died Wednesday in London. No cause of death was given. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

IOC member Alex Gilady of Israel dies at 79

April 14, 2022

Olympic sailor from Tunisia, aged 17, dies in training

April 11, 2022
A Slovakian hockey player skates past the Paralympic logo during a practice session at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, Thursday, March 3, 2022. In a stunning reversal, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from the Winter Paralympic Games for their countries' roles in the war in Ukraine, the International Paralympic Committee said Thursday in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Russians heading home; reserve right to later legal action

March 4, 2022
FILE - General view inside the Stade de France stadium before a training session ahead of the UEFA Nations League soccer match between France and Croatia at the Stade de France stadium in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Sunday Sept. 6, 2020. Russia has been stripped of hosting the Champions League final by UEFA with St. Petersburg replaced by Paris after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The men's final will still be held on May 28 but now at the 80,000-seat Stade de France after the decision by UEFA's executive committee. (Christian Hartmann/Pool image via AP, File)

Russia loses Champions League final to Paris; Sochi F1 axed

February 25, 2022
FILE - International Olympic Committee Vice President Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. arrives for a news conference at the headquarters of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee in Beijing, Sept. 18, 2018. The International Olympic Committee member who oversaw Beijing Winter Games preparations since 2015 was voted back on its executive board Saturday, Feb. 19. 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Samaranch voted back on IOC executive board at Beijing Games

February 19, 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, and International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach applaud during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (Anthony Wallace/Pool Photo via AP)

After skating debacle, Bach takes rare shots at Russians

February 18, 2022
FILE - United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland speaks during a press conference at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US Olympic committee head says withholding medals ‘unfair’

February 17, 2022
Silver medalists Karen Chen and Nathan Chen pose for a photo after the team event in the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

AP sources: US skaters to get Olympic torches as medals wait

February 17, 2022
China's Qi Guangpu competes during the men's aerials qualification at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Olympics Live: US, Canada both out of men’s hockey

February 16, 2022
Gold medalists United States' Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner celebrates during a medal ceremony for the mixed team snowboard cross at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

For the aged: Older Olympians in the medal mix, too

February 13, 2022
United States' Chloe Kim reacts during the women's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Not perfect, still golden for Chloe Kim in Olympic halfpipe

February 10, 2022
Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, of Germany, celebrate winning the gold medal in luge doubles at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

In Olympic doubles luge, Germany reigns supreme once again

February 9, 2022
FILE - The Olympic flag is carried into the stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

EXPLAINER: What in the world is the Olympic Truce?

February 8, 2022
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