Coventry detailed her vision for an IOC presidency in her candidate manifesto published last December (soon after she gave birth to her second daughter, Lily). She wrote that she was guided by the collaborative Ubuntu philosophy: I am because we are.

The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role on Monday.

Kirsty Coventry was officially sworn in Tuesday as president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the fi