{"id":16699,"date":"2025-03-20T17:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fr.africanews.com\/2025\/03\/20\/comite-international-olympique-la-zimbabweenne-kirsty-coventry-elue-presidente\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:20:01","slug":"comite-international-olympique-la-zimbabweenne-kirsty-coventry-elue-presidente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/?p=16699","title":{"rendered":"Comit\u00e9 international olympique : la zimbabweenne Kirsty Coventry \u00e9lue pr\u00e9sidente\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/comite-international-olympique-la-zimbabweenne-kirsty-coventry-elue-presidente.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Elle est la premi\u00e8re femme et la premi\u00e8re africaine \u00e0&nbsp;acc\u00e9der \u00e0 ce poste. La zimbabweenne Kirsty Coventry vient d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9lue pr\u00e9sidente du Comit\u00e9 international olympique.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019ancienne sportive de haut niveau faisait partie des sept candidats en lice pour succ\u00e9der \u00e0 Thomas Bach, \u00e9lu en 2013 puis r\u00e9\u00e9lu en 2021. Ce dernier avait atteint la limite du nombre de mandats \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence du CIO.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 l&rsquo;issue du vote \u00e0 huis clos, les 109 membres du Comit\u00e9 ont \u00e9lu Kirsty Coventry pour un mandat de huit ans, reconductible une fois pour quatre ans suppl\u00e9mentaires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 41 ans, elle a d\u2019abord connu une longue et glorieuse carri\u00e8re dans le sport en remportant notamment sept m\u00e9dailles olympiques, dont deux en or, en cinq \u00e9ditions. La sportive a par la suite \u00e9volu\u00e9 en politique en tant que ministre des Sports de son pays depuis 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Entr\u00e9e au CIO en 2013, elle a pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 la commission des athl\u00e8tes, si\u00e8ge depuis 2018 \u00e0 la commission ex\u00e9cutive et dirige la commission de coordination des JO 2032 de Brisbane, en Australie.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ce jeudi 20 mars, Kirsty Coventry est devenue le 10\u00e8me pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019histoire du CIO et la premi\u00e8re venue d\u2019Afrique.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elle est la premi\u00e8re femme et la premi\u00e8re africaine \u00e0&nbsp;acc\u00e9der \u00e0 ce poste. La zimbabweenne Kirsty Coventry vient d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9lue pr\u00e9sidente du Comit\u00e9 international olympique.&nbsp; L\u2019ancienne sportive de haut niveau faisait partie des sept candidats en lice pour succ\u00e9der \u00e0 Thomas Bach, \u00e9lu en 2013 puis r\u00e9\u00e9lu en 2021. Ce dernier avait atteint la limite &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-actualites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}