{"id":192413,"date":"2025-02-27T18:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kirsty-wont-rush-wants-ioc-re-set\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T18:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:26:38","slug":"zimbabwe-kirsty-wont-rush-wants-ioc-re-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-kirsty-wont-rush-wants-ioc-re-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Kirsty Won&#8217;t Rush, Wants IOC Re-Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Sport, Recreation, Arts, and Culture Minister Kirsty Coventry once again faced the media in the build-up to the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s presidential election, with the legendary former swimmer giving a hint of how she would approach her governance of the global sporting body if elected next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">&#8220;I think we&#8217;re two very different people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;First and foremost, for me, I think the way in which the IOC communicates would need to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">&#8220;We have a completely different leadership style. My&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502270307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport, Recreation, Arts, and Culture Minister Kirsty Coventry once again faced the media in the build-up to the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s presidential election, with the legendary former swimmer giving a hint of how she would approach her governance of the global sporting body if elected next month. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re two very different people. &#8220;First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9161,45051,257,39336,17770,254,7462,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ioc","tag-kirsty","tag-news","tag-reset","tag-rush","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wont","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}