Tag: olympic
Zimbabwean millennial Kirsty Coventry gets Olympic top job
By Kate Bartlett JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has had an eventful career, from the pool, to parliament. The country’s former dictator, Robert Mugabe, called her “a golden girl,” while the man who deposed him in a coup — Emmerson “the Crocodile” Mnangagwa – appointed her his minister of sports. Now the 41-year-old…
The oldest living Olympic medal winner, Ágnes Keleti, has died at age 103
By The Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary — Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, has died. She was 103. Keleti died Thursday morning in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency reported. She was hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia on Dec. 25. She won a total of 10 Olympic medals…
Agnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic gold medallist, dies at 103
Hungarian gymnast survived persecution of Jews in second world war and won five golds across two Games The world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist, the Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, who escaped the Holocaust with false identity papers and the Soviet Union’s brutal clampdown on her home country by emigrating to Israel, has died aged 103.…