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Eddie Chikamhi Senior Sports Reporter THE Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Kirsty Coventry, believes solutions will be found soon, leading to the lifting of the FIFA ban and see Zimbabwe back to international football earlier than was envisaged. Coventry told the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation that her office […]
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Virginia Kashiri and Nokutenda Chiyangwa KIRSTY COVENTRY’S rise to become the International Olympic Committee Athletics Commission boss has been hailed by the South Korean government, with the Asian country hosting the Winter Olympics which got underway yesterday.
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RETIRED Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is in pole position to replace United States ice hockey player Angela Ruggiero as chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission.
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Eddie Chikamhi Senior Sports Reporter FIFTEEN years after swimming sensation at the Commonwealth games, Zimbabwe could yet bounce back to the Club Games amid strong indications by Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kazembe Kazembe that Government was mulling rejoining the grouping.
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Gilbert Munetsi in BINDURA SWIMMING sensation Kirsty Coventry yesterday became the first Zimbabwean athlete to be conferred with an honorary doctorate in sports science degree by Bindura University of Science Education’s National Sports Academy at a ceremony where President Mugabe capped 3 725 graduates. She assumes the new title of Dr Kirsty Coventry. The Olympian, who could […]
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Sports Reporter SWIMMING icon Kirsty Coventry has for the umpteenth time defended her motherland and says despite being a white Zimbabwean she had never suffered any racial prejudices and has always felt at home in her country.
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Ellina Mhlanga : Sports Reporter SPORT and Recreation Minister Makhosini Hlongwane has acknowledged that Team Zimbabwe failed the nation at the just-ended Olympic Games, attributing the poor showing at the global sporting showcase to lack of planning. As Team Zimbabwe returned home empty-handed, Hlongwane noted that there had never been a real plan for the Games despite […]
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Sports Reporter ICONIC Zimbabwean swimmer, Kirsty Coventry led the plaudits for Micheen Thornycroft after the rower kept her dreams of winning a maiden Olympics medal alive by storming into semi-finals of the women singles sculls in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil yesterday. Coventry, the finest African Olympian in history, hailed Thornycroft on her Instagram account after the […]
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