The winner will steer the Olympics on a smooth path in politics and sports toward the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday appointed the country’s military boss to replace Kirsty Coventry as sports minister. Mnangagwa said that Gen.

Coventry has said she will resign from her Zimbabwe minister’s job to move to the Olympic home city of Lausanne in Switzerland. Her eight-year term in charge of the IOC begins in June.