A mini-Olympics? That was the possibility ... Committee’s decision to readmit South Africa. Banned in 1963 for its Apartheid policies—in sport as in everything else—South Africa has now ...

And that will be one of the first objectives if I become president. Africa is critical to the growth of Olympic sport." After taking up athletics during his secondary school days in Yorkshire ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She's the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41.

A champion of sport development in Africa, Coventry has pledged to expand Olympic participation and ensure the Games remain relevant to younger generations. She also inherits the complex task of ...