Zimbabwe's aspiring Olympics supremo Coventry targets development of athletes

Kirsty Coventry won seven medals swimming for Zimbabwe at the Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008 and is fighting to become the first woman and first African to lead the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year history. © IOC

Seven-time Olympic medallist Kirsty Coventry vowed to use the memories of her trials and tribulations as an aspiring athlete in Zimbabwe to improve the lot of up-and-coming youngsters if she were to be elected as the next president of the International Olympic Committee. (IOC).

Coventry's parents scrimped and saved to raise money, including selling cakes and hamburgers in the local community at weekends, to assist her training.