The former Prime Minister will, as part of a temporary mission, accompany the stakeholders of a file still pending from the president of the organizing committee.
Four days after the handover of power with François Bayrou in the icy courtyard of Matignon, Michel Barnier was, on December 17, at the heart of a summit meeting on the subject of the 2030 Winter Games. According to Francs Jeux, the former Premier Minister participated, Tuesday in Paris, in a meeting between the IOC and the main players in the issue: David Lappartient, president of the CNOSF, Marie-Amélie Le Fur, president of the CPSF, Fabrice Pannekoucke, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and Laurent Wauquiez, the special advisor of AURA and Pierre-Antoine Molina, the new interministerial delegate to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the presence of Christophe De Kepper, the Director General of the IOC and Christophe Dubi, the Director of the Olympic Games, the Savoyard inherited a “voluntary and temporary prefiguration mission as representative of the IOC to support the creation of the COJOP”.
A nomination which echoes the impatience of the IOC. The Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the 2030 Winter Games still does not have a president. And time passes… According to the host city contract signed on July 24, France had five months to compose an organizing committee. Faced with the imminent deadline, the IOC granted a one-month delay.
Michel Barnier, who is still a member of the IOC Sustainability and Legacy Commission, has maintained numerous connections with leaders in the world of sport. The man who formed the unforgettable maneuvering tandem with Jean-Claude Killy during the Albertville Olympic Games in 1992, carried the flame of the Paris 2024 Games to the Glières plateau in June. It is he who, at the end of an express application (the application file had been officially submitted on November 7, 2023) and an allocation “conditionally” (July 24, 2024), suspended from the financial guarantee of the State, had initialed the commitment for the 2030 Winter Games. On November 2, one day after the deadline expired…
Michel Barnier knows the Games and their mysteries of the Games. He also knows the 2030 Games file, the actors, the issues, the opposition and the risks of financial slippage. His experience on a complex project (two regions, multiple stakeholders and ambitions) will be valuable in appointing the president of the organizing committee, avoiding tensions and putting the 2030 Games on the rails which, after having been very quickly, can no longer lose momentum. time…
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