Zimbabwean opts against using luxury hotels
Coventry wants IOC members to speak their minds
Kirsty Coventry has promised to not let power go to her head when she becomes the first female president of the International Olympic Committee next week.
Her predecessor, Thomas Bach, would always stay in a suite paid for by the IOC at the five-star Lausanne Palace hotel, costing about £2,000 a night, whenever he was in the city. However, the Zimbabwean confirmed her family would not be following suit.
“We won’t be staying in the Palace,” she said. “I really want my kids to grow up doing the same thing that I did, making beds and doing our chores and being kids.”
