Kirsty Coventry Takes the Olympic Reins: A Zimbabwean Lifeguard for a Planet on Fire
Kirsty Coventry, the former Olympic swimmer from land-locked Zimbabwe, has just been elected the first African and first female president of the International Olympic Committee—an outcome that, judging by the collective gasp in Lausanne, landed somewhere between miracle and clerical error. To the outside world this looks like a heart-warming arc: teenage girl dodges crocodiles…