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Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding, and the IOC

Dissident Voice 24 Mar 2025
Representatives gathered in Greece at Costa Navarino, to make their decision ... 49 of the 97 cast ... “I am because we are.” ... Emphasis was placed on using existing and temporary infrastructure, in contrast to previous games such as Athens 2004 ... .
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Amber Le Bon details traumatic 40-hour labour that left her in 'shock' after revealing she's ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2025
Amber, who announced the news with the publication, said ... ''Wow, he's really here''.' ... His second book, Our Race, focuses on the Great Britain 4x100m Relay Team, who in 2004 had 'never been worse' until they went to the Olympic Games in Athens ... He says.
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Romania's Popovici and Radiș awarded

Inside The Games 23 Mar 2025
They received their accolades at a ceremony held at the National Opera in Bucharest on Thursday evening ... The gala also honored Camelia Potec, the 2004 Athens Olympic champion in the women's 200m freestyle, who was named President of the Year ... ....
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Olympic Order highlights anti-doping efforts

Inside The Games 23 Mar 2025
According to the Agency itself, Pound, a lawyer by profession, put WADA on the map by ensuring that the first World Anti-Doping Code was developed and implemented in time for the Athens 2004 Olympic ...
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Brookfield schools lose a second top administrator as assistant superintendent takes Westport post

News Times 22 Mar 2025
Anna Mahon also competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics as a member of the U.S. Track and Field Team in the women’s 4-kilogram hammer throw ... .
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Armed robbers ransack new Olympic president Kirsty Coventry's parents' home and steal £46,000 of jewellery, ...

The Daily Mail 22 Mar 2025
Swimming costumes worn by Coventry, seen here winning the first of her two Olympic gold medals in Athens in 2004, were among items stolen from her family home by armed robbers.
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Zimbabweans inspired by former Olympic champ Coventry's journey to leading Olympic movement

China.dot.org 21 Mar 2025
HARARE, March 21 (Xinhua) -- From winning her first gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 to becoming the first woman and the first African president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), ...
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Heathrow chaos strands Island-born athletics superstar Kelly Sotherton

Yahoo Daily News 21 Mar 2025
Kelly Sotherton after winning bronze at the Athens Olympics in 2004.More than 1,300 flights to and from Heathrow were affected, including Kelly's. On X, the former world number one heptathlete, initially posted ... .
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Olympics-Coventry smashes glass ceiling to become\u00a0first woman and first African to lead IOC

Colorado Springs Gazette 21 Mar 2025
SHOW OF UNITY ... A seven-times Olympic medallist, Coventry won 200m backstroke gold at the 2004 Athens Games and again in Beijing four years later ... Champion in Athens 2004, victorious again in Pylos -- her golden touch in Greece shows no signs of fading.
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Coventry smashes glass ceiling to become first woman and first African to lead IOC

The Daily Herald - St Maarten 21 Mar 2025
SHOW OF UNITY ... A seven-times Olympic medallist, Coventry won 200m backstroke gold at the 2004 Athens Games and again in Beijing four years later ... Champion in Athens 2004, victorious again in Pylos -- her golden touch in Greece shows no signs of fading.
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Who is Kirsty Coventry, the new IOC president?

The Manila Times 21 Mar 2025
She will begin her eight-year term in charge of the IOC in June. Coventry was the back-to-back Olympic champion in the 200 meters backstroke in 2004 and 2008 ... She won three medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics and four medals at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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Zimbabwe’s Coventry becomes first woman to head IOC

Jamaica Star 21 Mar 2025
COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP). ... Hers was a stunning first-round win in the seven-candidate contest after voting by 97 IOC members ... Coventry won back-to-back titles in 200 metres backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing four years later ... .
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New IOC president is first woman, first African to lead global Olympic body

The Oregonian 21 Mar 2025
“It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist said ... Coventry won back-to-back titles in 200-meter backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing four years later ... ....
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Auburn grad Kirsty Coventry is IOC’s first female president

Chatanooga Times Free Press 21 Mar 2025
"It is a signal that we are truly global," the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist said ... Coventry won back-to-back titles in the 200-meter backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and in Beijing four years later ... ....
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Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president and is first woman, African to lead global Olympic body

Manila Bulletin 21 Mar 2025
(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) ... President Donald Trump about the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics ... He did not use his right to vote ... Coventry won back-to-back titles in 200-meters backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing four years later ... .
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