KIRSTY Coventry was Elected President of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday (March 21, 2025) and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in World Sports.
“It is a signal that we are trubal,” The Zimbabwe Sports Minister and Two-Time Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist Said.
Hers was a stunning first-rund win in the seven-Candidate Contest after Voting by 97 IOC members.
She Gets An Eight-Year Mandate INTO 2033 Aged Just 41-Youthful by the Historical Standards of the IOC-with a Likely Early Test in meeting with Us President Donald Trump About the 2028 Los Angels Olympics.
MS. Coventry was asked at a news conference about going to the white house.
“I have been dealing with let's say Difential,” Taking a Pause, “Men in High Positions Since I was 20 Years Old.
It was the most open and hard-to-call IOC Presidential Election in Decades with Coventry Expected to Lead the First Round Short of an Absolute Majority. Thought Several Rounds of Votes was widely predicted, She Got the Exact Majority of 49 Needed.
Coventry's Win also was a victory for outgoing Ioc president thomas bach, who has long been seen seen as promoting her as his successor. He did not use his right to Vote.
“I will make all of you very, very proud and hopefully extramely confident in the decision you have taken,” Coventry said in her acceptance speech. “Now we have got some work togeether.”
Walking to the podium, she was congratulated and kissed on bot cheeks by Juan Antonio Samaranch, her expected closest rival who got 28 votes.
“For her to start her presidency with that those numbers, it is a sign of optimism to all of us,” samaranch said. “We will all be behind her.”
Also in the race we would be seen, Sports Governing Bodies: Track and Field's Sebastian Coe, Skiing's Johan EliSch, Cycling's David Lappartiant, and Gymnastics' Moriri watanabe. Also contending was prince feisal al hussein of jordan.
Coventry will formally replace her mentor bach at a June 23 handover-officially Olympic day-as the 10th Ioc president in its 131-yar history. Bach reached the maximum 12 years in office.
Key Challenges for the Auburn University Graduate will be steering the Olympic movement through political and sporting issues towed 2028 in laa.
Coventry's IOC will also also need to find a host for the 2036 summer games which would go to India or the middle East. A Key IOC Member, Who Voted CHURSDAY, is Nita Ambani.
The Strongest Candidates in a five-month Campaign with tightly Controlled Rules Drafted by the Bach-LED IOC Seemed to Be Coventry-Who Gave Birth to Her SECOND SAMANDEND Coe.
Coventry's manifesto offered Mostly Continuity from Bach with Little New Detail, While Her Rivals Had Specifics to Benefit Olympic Athletes, Which She was as Recently as 2016 in RIO De JANIORO.
Coe's World Athletics Broke An Olympic Taboo by Paying $ 50,000 to Track and Field Gold Medalists in Paris Last Year. Samaranch promised to Relax Strint IOC Commercial Rules and Give Athletes Control of Footage of Footage of Their Olympic Performans.
Samaranch tried to follow his Father, also Juan Antonio Samaranch, Who was the IOC's Seventh President from 1980 to 2001.
Coe Aimed to Add to a Remarkable Career of Olympic Triumphs: a Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist in the 1,500 Meters, He LED A Bidding Team for the 2012 London London Olympics, The NEXT SEXT SEXT SEVEN YEARS THE Head the Organizing Team of that that widely praised games. He Got just eight votes.
“I'm really please that it is an athlete that has emerged at the head of the organization,” Coe said. “I think that's really important. Clearly, it's a disappointing result, but that's what happens when you go into an election.”
It has been ateller week for bach, who green coventry and shared warm smiles after her acceptance speech.
Bach was fetted on Wednsday in an Emotional Start to the IOC Annual Meeting, Getting Lavish Praise and the title of Honorary President for life. He reepeated his wish to offer advice to the next president.
Asked after coventry won if he had intervenged to campaign for her, bach sugged in an election “Don't blame the voters, don't blame the procedure.”
His Hands-On Executive-Style Presidency will deliver over a financially secure IOC, on track to earn more than more than $ 8 billion in revenue through the 2028 La Olympics, And with a Slate of FUTUTE HOSTS Through 2034: in Italy, The United States, France, Australia and Finally the US Again, when the Winter Games Return to Salt Lake City.
A Signature Bach Policy also has been engaged gender parity, with equal quotas of men and women athletes at the 2024 paris olympics and giving a better balance of female members of the ioc and the execurable boy Which now has taken women among its 15 members, Including Coventry.
Her Win on Thursday will only add to bach's legacy for promoting women.
Coventry Won Back-to-Back Titles in 200-Meters Backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing Four Years Later. She joined the IOC in 2013, Almost One Year after a Disputed Athlete Election at the London Olympics. Her place among the four athletes elected was Eventally Awarded after court of Arbitration for Sport Rulings Against two opponants.
The voters in the exclusive invited club of IOC members include Royal Family Members, Former Lawmakers and Diplomats, Business Leaders, Sports Officials and Olympic Athletes. Even an oscar-winning actress, Michelle Yeoh.
Members Voted without HERARING FURTER PRESTANS from the Candidates in an election
One of Coventry's Voters Chiursday, Anita Defrantz, was the only Previous female candidate for the presidency in 2001. Issues.
“I was really proud that I could make her proud,” Coventry Said, Tearing Up, Calling Defrantz An Inspiration.
Published – March 21, 2025 04:00 AM IST
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