Utahns likely know outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach as the official who announced last year the state was getting another Winter Games with the words, “Salt Lake City ...

The International Olympic Committee will anoint a new president on Thursday as Seb Coe battles with six other candidates to take the highest office in sport. Twelve years after Thomas Bach was elected ...

Despite a tenure in which keeping the Olympics and politics separate has at times been difficult – and in which he’s had to deal with some of the world’s most controversial leaders – Thomas Bach has a ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — The IOC is the undisputed champion of running the most tightly managed sports election, one compared by veteran Olympic watchers to a conclave to pick a pope. Some of the ...

This article has been updated after Kirsty Coventry was elected as the first woman president of the International Olympic Committee on March 20. Like adult cicadas and leaders of the Chinese Communist ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry and Honorary President for Life Thomas Bach in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's successful bid to host the 2034 Winter Games "had it all," International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach declared to a global group of reporters Wednesday as he wraps ...

President Xi Jinping meets with International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry (left) and Honorary President for ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, emerging from a contentious seven-candidate race Thursday to take hold of one of the ...