Seb Coe’s IOC Bid Scuppered By Zimbabwean Who Took $100,000 from Dictator Mugabe – Guido Fawkes

Seb Coe’s IOC Bid Scuppered By Zimbabwean Who Took $100,000 from Dictator Mugabe

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Lord Coe won’t become the head of the International Olympic Committee after being beaten in the vote by a swimmer from Zimbabwe called Kirsty Coventry. She becomes the organisation’s first female president…

The Brit – who is a former Tory MP and peer – saw his campaign scuppered by Coventry, who has an eyebrow-raising political history. As The Times reports: “She received $100,000 in cash from the former president, Robert Mugabe, upon her return from the Beijing Games in 2008 and has been a sports minister in a Zimbabwean government that is the subject of UK and US sanctions.” Another international organisation which is becoming a total joke…