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Kirsty Coven­try was elect­ed pres­i­dent of the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee on Thurs­day and be­came the first woman and first African to get per­haps the biggest job in world sports.

“It is a sig­nal that we are tru­ly glob­al,” the Zim­bab­we sports min­is­ter and two-time Olympic swim­ming gold medal­ist said.

Hers was a stun­ning first-round win in the sev­en-can­di­date con­test af­ter vot­ing by 97 IOC mem­bers.