Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee. She got a stunning win in Thursday's first-round voting by IOC members in a seven-candidate contest at the 144th IOC session in Greece. Coventry is the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in global sports, and aged just 41.
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00:00Dear friends and colleagues, the 144th IOC session has elected as the 10th president
00:09of the International Olympic Committee, Mrs. Kirsty Coventry.
00:37This is an extraordinary moment.
00:41As a nine-year-old girl, I never thought that I would be standing up here one day getting
00:47to give back to this incredible movement of ours.
00:52This is not just a huge honor, but it is a reminder of my commitment to every single
01:00one of you that I will lead this organization with so much pride, with the values at the
01:06core, and I will make all of you very, very proud and hopefully extremely confident in
01:15the decision that you've taken today.
01:18Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and now we've got some work together.
01:22This race was an incredible race, and it made us better, made us a stronger movement.
01:29I know from all of the conversations that I've had with every single one of you how
01:34much stronger our movement is going to be when we now come back together and deliver
01:39on some of those ideas that we all shared.
01:42Thank you very much for this moment, and thank you very much for this honor.