André Soltner, the influential French chef who died at 92 in January, was remembered warmly by family and friends for his frugal habits, though a memorial to celebrate him on Saturday afternoon in Manhattan was anything but. A 16-piece orchestra perched above the cathedral-size ballroom at 583 Park Avenue welcomed guests to their gilt chairs…
Kirsty Coventry was elected on Thursday as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee, capping a monthslong election battle and becoming the first woman and the first African to hold the most powerful role in sports. The election, which has been described in similar language to a papal conclave, was settled — to gasps…
Late Wednesday night, members of the International Olympic Committee gathered for a dinner at the Olympic Museum on the banks of Lake Geneva. The next morning, they would see presentations from seven candidates vying to be their leader, a role that would by most measures be the most important in international sports. At the closed-doors…