DAKAR, March 23, 2025 - When Thomas Bach declared seven months ago that new times are calling for new leaders, many sport observers from Africa were far from imagining that the desired change at the head of the Olympic movement would be a woman, and even less so that she would come from Africa. Today it is a reality: Kirsty Coventry was elected President of the IOC during the 144th IOC session held in Greece on Thursday March 20, 2025. A SURPRISE An unimaginable scenario that came as a surprise on the...

NYON, March 24, 2025 - Accreditation applications for UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 can now be placed via the UEFA Media Portal.As part of this process, a selected set of personal data will be mandatory for background screening by the Swiss authorities; ahead of entering your personal data and completing your profile in the portal, kindly read, download, print, and manually sign the declaration of consent to background screening.All info about the process, the deadlines to know and information available on...

LAUSANNE, March 20, 2025 - Kirsty Coventry, the first woman, African, and youngest of the candidates, has emerged victorious as the tenth President of the Olympic Committee. Some may argue this outcome was predictable, given that Thomas Bach had selected her as his successor. While Bach’s endorsement played a pivotal role, something else must have influenced those who decided to place their bet on her in the first round of voting, an outcome that many of the most experienced Olympic commentators deemed...

COSTA NAVARINO, March 21, 2025 - When Kirsty Coventry won her first Olympic medal around 20 years ago in the Greek capital Athens, it was a symbol of unity for her home country, Zimbabwe, which was in turmoil at the time. Fast forward to 20 March 2025, she has become one of the most powerful women in the world, with her incredible first-round knockout victory in the IOC presidential election - also in Greece - being described as a sign of unity. “I’m honoured to have been successful here in Athens in 2004....