The first female and first African president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization's 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic movement was "in the best of hands.

Kirsty Coventry can remember the spot in her living room 33 years ago when, shortly after getting out of the pool and still wearing her swimsuit, she watched TV coverage of the Barcelona Olympics and a diver competing for her country of Zimbabwe.

Kirsty Coventry has made history by being inaugurated as the first woman and first African president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday,