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Tommy's Girl

Why Kirsty Coventry will become IOC president next week. What would have to happen to prevent it – an ethics complaint against Bach et al, for example. What the latest multi-billion dollar TV deal has to do with the election, and the dubious paths that led Coventry in the IOC in the first place.

Somewhere in Africa: Kirsty Coventry with IOC deity and extras planting a so-called Olympic Forest. (Photo: IOC / Greg Martin)

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