Olympic leader Coventry learns in first political stress test with Los Angeles challenges ahead

The first female president in the International Olympic Committee’s 132 years got a proper stress test in the first games of her history-making leadership. Kirsty Coventry was widely seen as having good overall success at the Milan Cortina Winter Games that also gave a taste of challenges set to be tougher running into the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. “An incredible games, and an incredible experience for me as my first in this role,” she told IOC colleagues Sunday.

By GRAHAM DUNBAR