Former Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry was appointed head of the international sports body, and thus became the first female president of the International Olympic Committee (CIO) in his history.
After being elected and preceded by six men in this position, she said, “The girl who started swimming in Zimbabwe could never reduce that moment for so many years. The glass ceiling was broken today.” »
Coventers were born in 1983 in Zimbabwe, newly independent, and began to swim very young and in 2000 participated in its first Olympic Games. Then she won 200 meters back twice, at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, as well as five other medals during these two editions.
Spores around Kirsty Coventry
Kirsty Coventry was considered by dictator Robert Mugabe as “darling” Zimbabwe and received a $ 100,000 price (£ 55,000) for his victory. It is criticized for doing it at a time when the Zimbabwa population suffered from hunger for hyperinflation.
It is not the last time Kirsty Coventry aroused controversy: then she climbed to a series of politicians by becoming a minister of sport in the Cabinet of President Emmerson Mnangagw, but little known to her membership in democratic ideals.
Its efficiency in this position was also questioned after Zimbabwe was forbidden to organize African football confederation matches in 2020 due to the uncertainty of the stadium and the use of taxpayers’ money to send delegation 74 people for nine athletes in competition in Paris Olympics, News Watchman.
This did not prevent him from winning the Presidency of IOC. After his victory Coventry, he defended his past actions by saying: “As far as his country is concerned, I decided to try to create an interior change. We criticize it, and that is normal, because in the end I don’t think we can stay in the shoulders of Crossing and demand change.
KIRSTY COVENTRY Position on Transgender athletes
She has already shown her skills to manage difficult political situations that are likely to be useful for the access of the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, under the Presidency of Donald Trump.
When asked what she would do if Trump tried to ban athletes’ entry into some countries, Kirsty Coventry replied: “I have wiped my shoulders with difficult men in important positions since 20 years. I learned that communication was necessary. »» »» »»
“We will not turn off our values: Solidarity and the guarantee that any qualified athlete for the Olympic Games can help in complete security. Although it seems positive, these” values ”seem to not apply to transgender people. After a panic surrounding boxer Imane Khelif– which was not a beyond the Olympic player, especially in the feeling of the United States, especially in the feeling of American, especially in the feeling that feels in feeling, especially in the feeling that is in feeling, especially in feeling that are in the Paris Olympics. Competitive. In the women’s sport Coventry clearly indicated that female sport should be protected.
“My position is that we will protect female categories and athletes. I would like to work with international federations. And we will achieve this by creating a working group that will explore and analyze everything. This was a political reaction, but Coventers have already supported the general ban on Transgender athletes at the Olympics, despite approval of Khelif. Eligosis has supported the conditions because they believe that they have caused them in all conditions because they were engaged in eliging eligoses in the field of eligosis that have been met that they have evoked in all conditions because they elignify eligosis.
Last January she said that the protection of female sport was necessary. “It is clear that Transgender women are more effective in the category of women and can deprive women of opportunities that should be the same,” she said.
But nothing proves that women and girls benefit from the benefits in sport.
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