Fabrice Pannekoucke: “Sobriety is essential”
Present at the French Ski Areas Congress in Reims, Fabrice Pannekoucke, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, reacted: “There was no better time for this news to fall than this day when the Ski areas in France. Originally there were two stories, the north and the south. It has become the story of a massif. When we say the French Alps, everyone in the world understands. It was also the story of two presidents who supported this candidacy, Laurent Wauquiez and Renaud Muselier. And since the semantic vector is uniqueness. There is an essential heritage dimension to these Games. First cultural, from Chamonix, Grenoble, Albertville. And structurally, we already have considerable investments made. An asset when you submit a sustainable application. These games must be those of inclusion, we are talking about the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We are going to think about rail and transport. Finally, sobriety is essential. The idea is to be able to organize games that we are able to finance, to organize these games using this heritage and training all the youth in our territories. »
And to complete in a press release:
“With the decisive support of Michel Barnier, the IOC today obtained all the necessary guarantees for the French Alps to host the Games in 2030! One hundred years after the first Winter Olympic Games in history in Chamonix, it is now up to us, with the Southern Region and the French sports movement, to write a new page for Olympics in our Alpine massifs. Our project is based on formidable assets: the heritage of Albertville 1992 and already existing infrastructures, the union between the northern and southern Alps, the dynamics of Paris 2024 and a large pool of talent and know-how. do, to offer the world a memorable Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
French Alps 2030 will mobilize all energies so that these sober and sustainable Games leave a legacy in our region for decades to come: accelerate the energy transition, strengthen accessibility and low-carbon mobility to our resorts, better take into account the disability, allow young people to practice winter sports and modernize our infrastructure. The Asterès study published in September forecasts the creation of nearly 50,000 jobs thanks to the hosting of the Games in the French Alps, which I welcome. Heading towards 2030! »
