ROME (AP) — For her first Olympics as IOC president, Kirsty Coventry could probably order up a helicopter if she so desired to get from one far-flung venue to another at the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games.

After all, with sports clusters dotted across northern Italy covering an area of more than 22,000 square kilometres (nearly 10,000 square miles), the 2026 Games will be the most widespread Winter Olympics ever.

Yet Coventry — the first woman and first African (she’s from Zimbabwe) elected to one of the most powerful jobs in world sports — will stick to more conventional travel methods.

“We will be going by car or bus or however the transport is used,” Coventry told The Associated Press on Friday after attending a cauldron ceremony at the presidential palace. in the Italian

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