As explained by RMC Sport on Saturday December 14, the Michel Barnier – Martin Fourcade duo is on track to launch the Alps 2030 project. According to several sources, Michel Barnier should obtain “a temporary mission” at the head of the organizing committee in order to help Martin Fourcade in launching the project. The short-lived Prime Minister has experience in this area having been co-president of the Albertville Olympics in 1992.
This mission as an IOC representative is voluntary and Barnier is up for this new challenge. He should help create the Organizing Committee (Cojo) before the end of January.
“Clearly, Barnier is the launching pad for the Fourcade rocket,” summarizes a person close to the matter.
A defeat for Wauquiez
This choice, which shows the permanent instability in this issue, is above all a defeat for Laurent Wauquiez. The former president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region did not want Martin Fourcade at the head of Cojo 2030. Except that at the moment, Fourcade is indeed the big favorite to become “Estanguet 2030”. With this new meeting, Alpes 2030 also gains time in the face of the impatience of the IOC in recent weeks.
At the head of this Cojo, you will have to be strong. For several days, documents, particularly on the financial risks surrounding these Olympics, have been published by various media. So much so that Michel Barnier contacted the Financial Inspectorate on December 4 in order to reduce the costs of the Olympic Games below 2 billion euros. The future boss of the Alps 2030 will also have to deal in the media with the societal subjects linked to these Olympic Games (snow, climate, constructions, etc.) A source recognizes “the sensitivity” of the subjects covered which is “much more important” than on the 2024 Olympics, “especially in this period when climate issues take a very important place in the public debate”.
Original article published on RMC Sport
