Busy morning for Marie Barasacq this Thursday. The new Minister of Sports went to Insep, where she visited the Institute of Bio-medical Research and Epidemiology and the Expertise and Performance laboratory. She was also able to speak with some Olympic athletes and federation leaders, and in this period of bitter discussions around the government budget, her interlocutors did not fail to remind her of the need to maintain the momentum of the Paris Olympics. . The former boss of the heritage part of the Games assured them in return that she was deploying all her energy “to defend a budget for sport, for more equipment, more supervisors, and also means for high performance “.
Who to represent the Winter Olympics?
Another subject is also occupying him a lot at the moment, that of the governance of the 2030 Winter Olympics, stuck for several weeks. Before coming to the Bois de Vincennes, Marie Barsacq spoke for more than an hour with Michel Barnier. The now ex-Prime Minister, who was co-president of the Organizing Committee for the Albertville Games alongside Jean-Claude Killy in 1992, was commissioned by the IOC to advance this issue. The international committee is in despair over the situation, as the five-month deadline granted after the award of the Games to put in place a management team expired on December 24.
The problem of who will embody these Games, the “Tony Estanguet of the mountains”, is still not resolved. The sports movement is pleading for Martin Fourcade, but the two regions involved, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, are slowing down. “We will work hand in hand with Michel Barnier on this subject. He must meet the regional presidents soon, just like me,” confided Marie Barsacq this Thursday.
All the players finally aligned
The Minister of Sports has brought forward a deadline, that of the beginning of next month, by which the management team will be known. “There will surely be a constitutive general meeting at the beginning of February, we are in the process of setting the date,” she certified. Things will settle down. Now we’re getting everyone lined up, so let’s be optimistic, it’s going to happen. »
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Relaunched on the possible identity of the bridgehead, or on the option of a presidency with two faces – one representing the sports movement, the other the political actors – the minister did not want to commit. “I’m not going to give you the answer today. But what I can tell you is that the discussions are very well underway and we are making good progress, particularly with the presence now of Michel Barnier on the subject who really plays a very important mediating role in the system. she pointed out.
The former Savoyard Prime Minister, whose name had also been mentioned in mid-December for a duet with Fourcade, therefore did not take long to find a mission after the censorship. Marie Barsacq promises in any case, there is now alchemy between all the actors on this issue. Better late than never.
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