Until five years of the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in the French Alps (and three days from the signing of the Region State Plan), the chronometer runs at full speed for the organizers of such a planetary event. The priority of the moment? The list of selected sites, which should have been formalized Monday, June 23. Barely appointed President of the Cojo, former Champion Edgar Grospiron was even tabling on May, at the latest.
The candidate stations will still have to arm (a little?) Patience before being fixed. In question: Difficulties in agreeing on the side of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regionwhere half of the events will take place. This was explained by Renaud Muselier, to the maneuver in the south, upstream of the plenary assembly of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, which takes place this Wednesday.
“We agreed on the tests and the villages, but There is a debate on paralympics. And in the North, there are also some complicated arbitrations, Slides the president of the southern region. Some large stations woke up afterwards, when we were ahead of our side. Basically, they want to take everything from us. Even after everything is decided, they insist that they know how to do that and that. But it won’t happen like that. “ At the heart of tensions, the possible participation of Val-d’Isère.
Up to 200 million euros per competition
Hence the condition set by Renaud Muselier: “If they take an additional site, I take isola. For balance.” Chick? By positioning himself, the former specialist in French diplomacy is almost certain that it will not enter the budget of 2 billion euros. “A competition is between 150 and 200 million euros,” he says. “It is a bit expensive the gallantry. Especially when we present these games as the most sober of history. The state is not very hot and we either. So, we take a little time on this. The stake is not to have delay for the sites that we must deliver in 2029, even 2028 to try them.”
Before that, Renaud Muselier had already had a “Long debate with the State”“Because of the comparison of our application budget with that of Bercy “. “Suffice to say that it was particularly stormy, underlines the one who plans to settle the inheritance issue of the Nice sites. They thought we couldn’t count. I replied that they were badly placed to say that. We ended up reviewing everything at zero. And very honestly, it was rather our version that won with the 2 billion budget. “
