Cyril Linette appointed Managing Director of the Organization Committee of the French Winter Olympic Games

This time, it’s done. After several weeks in the waiting room, the former manager of the newspaper The team And of the Mutual Urban Mutual Bet (PMU), Cyril Linette, was appointed, Thursday, April 17, director general of the organizing committee of the 2030s Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP), which France will organize on the two regions Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.

On several occasions, the formalization of this “Polichinelle secret” – The words of Renaud Muselier, president (Renaissance) of the PACA region – seemed close to, but the confirmation of the appointment of the 54 -year -old leader was postponed, due to “Agenda constraints” Between the various players in the Jo 2030 project – the State, the two host host regions of the games as well as the French Olympic (CNOSF) and Paralympic (CPSF) (CPSF) (CPSF) committees – and not to compete with the inauguration of the Solideo (the company responsible for supervising the construction of the Olympic sites), Monday, April 14, in Marseille.

“Cyril Linette is an innovative, structuring, reformer leader. It brings a clear vision of value creation, budget management, team performance and content dissemination ”expressed Edgar Grospiron, the president of the cojop, in a press release, insisting on the need to surround himself with a “Real boss”. “Games are as much a sporting event today as a huge platform for content with strong emotional power. Cyril has this ability to think about both the background, the form, and the terrain ”.

Unhappy candidate in the summer of 2024 to take over the management of the Professional Football League against outgoing President Vincent Labrune, Cyril Linette will not have stayed too long without a project. And he should not miss a work to advance a file that accumulates delays and setbacks since the IOC held the only French file, at the end of 2023, among the candidates for the 2030 Olympic Games.

Two urgent files

The new “DG” finally appointed, Edgar Grospiron, the boss of the 2030 Alps, will now be able to finalize the organizational chart of the organizing committee. And in particular to choose, with his right arm, the four or five service directors who should support them in the implementation of the Olympic project. Here again, the former Olympic acrobatic skiing champion (in Albertville, in 1992) will have to obtain the consent of the stakeholders of the 2030 winter games. In view of the setbacks in the appointment of Cyril Linette, it will not be the least of the difficulties for the former king of the bumps to convince the various actors of the French Alps.

At the same time, he will have to move forward as quickly as possible on two of the most urgent files in the organization of the 2030 winter games: the map of the sites and the budget. Promise for June 23, the first should be made public by the end of the summer, the time to collect the conclusions of the technical studies launched. The budget depends intimately on the map of the sites, as recalled by the Minister of Sports Marie Barsacq during the inauguration of the Solideo (the company responsible for supervising the construction of the Olympic sites) on Monday, April 14. With a strong constraint: do not exceed the envelope of the two billion euros allocated to the organization of games in the French Alps.