Kirsty Coventry becomes first woman and first African to head IOC

Zimbabwe's two-time Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry is the most powerful person in sport - after being elected head of the International Olympic Committee. It was expected to be a close race, but Coventry was elected by a majority in the first round of a secret ballot. She's described her election as an "extraordinary moment", and promised to make IOC members proud of their choice. We hear from our journalist in Greece and get reaction from the Olympic community.

Also on the programme: We're at the scene of pro-democracy demonstrations in Istanbul as Turks take to the streets to protest the detention of the city's popular mayor; and an actor with dwarfism gives us her take on the controversy surrounding the lack of dwarf actors in the live-action remake of Snow White.

(Picture: Thomas Bach with Kirsty Coventry as she is elected the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Credit: REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki)