Category: Politics

Kirsty Coventry speaks about what she is going to do in her first two weeks in office

Kirsty Coventry, a former Olympic champion swimmer and a current member of the IOC’s executive board, was appointed minister of sport in Zimbabwe on Friday. The 34-year-old Coventry was vice president of the Zimbabwe Olympic committee. She also chairs the IOC’s athletes’ commission. She was appointed to Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s cabinet as minister of youth,…