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Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by JuanDeDios: 11:34am On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
A white Zimbabwean woman sound odd...

Even though Zimbabwe has some white population.. Perhaps less or about 1% of total population, why is it always a white person that has to become champion in global swimming competition...

Are u guys saying the 99% black population in Zimbabwe can't get someone to win a swimming competition even after this white woman?
Sebi Amos Adamu once black people can't swim? Maybe he was right, who knows?
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by JuanDeDios: 11:35am On Mar 21, 2025
Hemanwel:
Wow! Kristy Coventry. I remember her so well at the Olympics Swimming events. I thought I would see in her the last Olympics, not knowing she had retired. A great Olympian she was!

BTW:

Jesu!!! Juan Antonio Samaranch still contesting for IOC president?? After being president from 1980-2001? Or, are my eyes turning me??
His son. He's a businessman in Spain.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by JuanDeDios: 11:36am On Mar 21, 2025
SaturnNick:
Zimbabwean by residency.
Congratulations to her though
She was born there. She's as Zim as any Zim.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by JuanDeDios: 11:38am On Mar 21, 2025
ehikwe22:
She's not African though
Oh, really. Is Colin Powell American?
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Judolisco(m): 11:55am On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
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It's actually the big question for all Africans and I don't understand
Cos this woman was born in Zimbabwe, and schooled there and started learning swimming there... Before going abroad to improve her learning... Why can't black of same nation also emerge with same story is my question?
For Nigeria we know nothing can work here cos it's all leadership and infrastructural problems.
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she trained in d United States oh.... During her university days.....to be d best u must compete with d best.... If u want to be a long distance runner, you'll have to go to eastern Africa to train with Kenyans and Ethiopians.... So ur question is like asking 2hy white people ain't winning long distance races
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Funjosh(m): 12:00pm On Mar 21, 2025
Zimbabwe Golden Girl.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by traware(m): 12:02pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
Oga, this is not true o
Is there a research to back this up?
Body composition as how, have you replicated all the swimming training opportunity in Europe in Africa and fail to see Africans become champion ? Don't subscribe to erroneous narrative
I was reading his post and laughing out loud
He should also use "body composition" to explain why the French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event in the year 2010.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Doylestown92(m): 12:07pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
A white Zimbabwean woman sound odd...

Even though Zimbabwe has some white population.. Perhaps less or about 1% of total population, why is it always a white person that has to become champion in global swimming competition...

Are u guys saying the 99% black population in Zimbabwe can't get someone to win a swimming competition even after this white woman?
Racism, but you want Europeans to give opportunities to third world black Africans?
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Ashirioluwa: 12:21pm On Mar 21, 2025
Mopolchi:
angryI was thinking that Zimbabweans are black; so we have white Zimbabweans huh
They are less than 1% of the population.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by koning: 12:23pm On Mar 21, 2025
First African......cough...cough...e choke.


I guess what is good for the goose is good for the gizzard.

Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by OkpaNsukkaisBae(m): 12:24pm On Mar 21, 2025
Congratulations🎉🥳👏

Though she's a white African
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Thunderfayamods: 12:31pm On Mar 21, 2025
Kionrae:
Why is she white
Go and ask God.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by etrange: 12:31pm On Mar 21, 2025
lol.., why is this so funny?
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by ednut1(m): 12:41pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
Oga, this is not true o
Is there a research to back this up?
Body composition as how, have you replicated all the swimming training opportunity in Europe in Africa and fail to see Africans become champion ? Don't subscribe to erroneous narrative
why are East Africans better at long distance and west african better at sprints? So we have to wait for white man to give us training opportunities before we can thrivehuh So the blacks in USA they dominate most sports dont have same opportunitieshuh

I learnt swimming recently and couldn’t float well. The bone density of the black man is higher

Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by FreeSpirited:
ednut1:
why are East Africans better at long distance and west african better at sprints? So we have to wait for white man to give us training opportunities before we can thrivehuh So the blacks in USA they dominate most sports dont have same opportunitieshuh U be mugu abeg
Lol.. Ode
Before you say we aren't good in swimming, u have to first expose us to the training facilities. It's simple way of doing research now. If u train with East Africans for long distance race in same facility, they will always beat u cos u don't have their composition...... U can say Blacks are better at basketball than whites cos same facility is available for white too over the years and whites haven't proven to be better when trained together at least by numbers.
But ur mumu brain dint realize that most Africans don't even have standard swimming training program and facility.. Yet u say we are bad swimmers.
Imagine saying blacks aren't good footballers.. Yet when our stars and young players are exposed to Oyinbo facility, we happen to be good if not better.. Oga rest
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Goodman247: 12:53pm On Mar 21, 2025
Mugabe chase most of the whites away fromzimbobo
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by favor914: 1:00pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
A white Zimbabwean woman sound odd...

Even though Zimbabwe has some white population.. Perhaps less or about 1% of total population, why is it always a white person that has to become champion in global swimming competition...

Are u guys saying the 99% black population in Zimbabwe can't get someone to win a swimming competition even after this white woman?
b4 u look outside, how many swimming medals your ijaw riverine brothers done win for Olympics?
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by easytig(m): 1:00pm On Mar 21, 2025
Because Mary onyali and amusan kept quiet lol ,if they should talk what they did before getting athletics scholarship to America, you will be shocked .
Lifestone:
Like they harassed Mary Onyeali and Amusan.
Natasha is a manipulator
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Imagineers: 1:02pm On Mar 21, 2025
She has been the sports minister for Zimbabwe since 2019.

Highly remarkable.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by ednut1(m): 1:05pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
Lol.. Ode
Before you say we aren't good in swimming, u have to first expose us to the training facilities. It's simple way of doing research now. If u train with East Africans for long distance race in same facility, they will always beat u cos u don't have their composition...... U can say Blacks are better at basketball than whites cos same facility is available for white too over the years and whites haven't proven to be better when trained together at least by numbers.
But ur mumu brain dint realize that most Africans don't even have standard swimming training program and facility.. Yet u say we are bad swimmers.
Imagine saying blacks aren't good footballers.. Yet when our stars are players are exposed to Oyinbo facility, we happen to be good if not better.. Oga rest
na u be mugu abeg. Till Zimbabwe produces a black swimming champion i go reply u lol
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by FreeSpirited: 1:06pm On Mar 21, 2025
favor914:
b4 u look outside, how many swimming medals your ijaw riverine brothers done win for Olympics?
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Did they tell you those who won it were trained in your muddy river by fishermen while fishing off the coast of Atlantic Ocean?
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by thatigboman: 1:12pm On Mar 21, 2025
RandDigital:
Most decorated African Olympian 🇿🇼🏆

Our other neighbor, Namibia, is inaugurating their first female president today 🇳🇦🏆 while 9ja persecutes Natasha and others of her gender

It's time for Southern Africa 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆!
so oyibo is a zimbabwean but black girl chidimma is not south african. u guys worship whites like your Lord and personal saviour
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by favor914: 1:13pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
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Did they tell you those who won it were trained in your muddy river by fishermen while fishing off the coast of Atlantic Ocean?
This your question na for Ijaw Youth Council.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Lifestone(m): 1:19pm On Mar 21, 2025
easytig:
Because Mary onyali and amusan kept quiet lol ,if they should talk what they did before getting athletics scholarship to America, you will be shocked .
Now you are making assumptions. Natasha should grow up
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Cocolatti(m): 1:34pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
He can't be the yardstick for all Africans
Besides wiki says he never saw 5O metre swimming pool before his alleged poor outing... This doesn't look like a well funded and trained athletes
I know.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by Okoroawusa: 1:44pm On Mar 21, 2025
Congratulations my African sister
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by ekitimanalways(m): 3:06pm On Mar 21, 2025
fergie001:
Coventry is the first woman and first African [/b]to be elected President of the International Olympic Committee

At 41, she is also the youngest ever to be so elected



Results of the election for the 10th IOC President:
HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein 2
David Lappartient 4
Johan Eliasch 2
Juan Antonio Samaranch 28
[b]Kirsty Coventry 49

Lord Sebastian Coe 8
Morinari Watanabe 4
She is not African. She is a descendant of European settlers!
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by ekitimanalways(m): 3:08pm On Mar 21, 2025
Okoroawusa:
Congratulations my African sister
She is a daughter of European settlers in Zimbabwe. Feel free to argue that.
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by frog12: 4:10pm On Mar 21, 2025
is this one 41 ? shocked
but if na black, she no go win grin grin


FreeSpirited:
A white Zimbabwean woman sound odd...

Even though Zimbabwe has some white population.. Perhaps less or about 1% of total population, why is it always a white person that has to become champion in global swimming competition...

Are u guys saying the 99% black population in Zimbabwe can't get someone to win a swimming competition even after this white woman?
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by frog12: 4:12pm On Mar 21, 2025
dem no go touch her.

Lifestone:
Like they harassed Mary Onyeali and Amusan.
Natasha is a manipulator
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by adeniyi65(m): 4:34pm On Mar 21, 2025
FreeSpirited:
A white Zimbabwean woman sound odd...

Even though Zimbabwe has some white population.. Perhaps less or about 1% of total population, why is it always a white person that has to become champion in global swimming competition...

Are u guys saying the 99% black population in Zimbabwe can't get someone to win a swimming competition even after this white woman?
Zimbabwean whites are part of South African whites. Their presence is also significant in Namibia and Botswana
Re: Kirsty Coventry: From Olympic Champion To IOC President by adeniyi65(m): 4:36pm On Mar 21, 2025
Mopolchi:
angryI was thinking that Zimbabweans are black; so we have white Zimbabweans huh
they are part of white immigrants in South Africa. Their presence is also in Namibia and Botswana
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