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President-elect Kirsty Coventry speaks during the handover ceremony of the IOC Presidency at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Olympics’ champion: New IOC president Coventry inaugurated to start 8-year leadership

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - IOC President Thomas Bach, right, greets Kirsty Coventry after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Olympic leader Bach got 10% raise in 2024 payment that trails far behind soccer’s elected leaders

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Algeria's Imane Khelif poses after defeating China's Yang Liu to win gold in their women's 66 kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Olympics under pressure to strip Khelif of boxing gold medal after leaked lab report

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, right, speaks next to the president-elect of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Kirsty Coventry, left, at the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Female athletes will outnumber men for first time at 2028 Olympics

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Newly elected International Olympic Committee IOC President Kirsty Coventry, second from right, is welcomed by officials at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry celebrated on return home to Zimbabwe

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Kirsty Coventry speaks after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

2 men arrested in Zimbabwe for armed robbery and stealing new IOC President Coventry’s memorabilia

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Kirsty Coventry gestures as she speaks after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Coventry elected IOC president and is first woman, first African to lead global Olympic body

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

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

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

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

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - The Olympic rings are pictured through a flag hanging in the Velodrome stadium during the Summer Olympics, July 24, 2024, in Marseille, France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

Boxing nears its spot on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic program as IOC recognizes new body

Associated Press

IOC finds Olympic sponsor in China through 2032 to replace Panasonic of Japan

Associated Press

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)

Boxing body targets IOC with criminal complaints citing Trump order on transgender athletes

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - Germany's Laura Freigang fights for the ball with Canada's Quinn during a women's quarterfinal soccer match between Canada and Germany at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, at Marseille Stadium in Marseille, France. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Trump administration plans to pressure IOC to come up with uniform transgender athlete ban

By Will Graves - Associated Press

FILE - Russian Olympic Committee react after losing to Finland in the men's gold medal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Russia and Belarus remain barred from ice hockey tournaments until at least May 2026

Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

World swim body eases rules on approved Russians

Associated Press

Then-Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Mint Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

FIFA and IOC hold different track records with Trump ahead of World Cup and Olympics in U.S.

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe holds a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee, headquarters in Rome, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Sebastian Coe says his run to be IOC president might not be such a longshot after all

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach shakes hands with figure skater Annabelle Atkinson, 10, of Salt Lake City, as they talk at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah, Saturday, Sept. 28. 2024. (Isaac Hale/The Deseret News via AP)

Could a doping probe strip Salt Lake City of the 2034 Olympics? The IOC president says it’s unlikely

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

IOC President Thomas Bach addresses the audience during the 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony at the Stade de France, Aug. 11, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Sebastian Coe among seven IOC members to enter race to succeed Thomas Bach as president

Associated Press

FILE - World Athletics President Sebastian Coe holds a press conference at the conclusion of the World Athletics meeting at the Italian National Olympic Committee, headquarters in Rome, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

IOC move on election rules puts up legal hurdles to Coe running for top Olympic job

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press