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Although these are times when one tends to think that everything is going backwards, the overall picture should keep us hopeful: as I write this article I hear the announcement that the Olympic movement will have, for the first time in its history, a woman president: Kirsty Coventry. The joy from my perspective is doubled by the fact that she is a former African swimmer from Zimbabwe, until now her country's sports minister, and the most decorated African in the history of the Olympic Games. It has taken 131 years since its founding for the Olympic movement to be...