INTERVIEW – unforgettable conductor, the president of the organizing committee of the 2024 Paris Games revisits with emotion a fol summer and its consequences.
In the company of Kirsty Coventry and Thomas Bach – the new president of the International Olympic Committee and her predecessor -, as well as major actors in the French Olympic and Sports Movement, Tony Estanguet will make a parenthesis in a summer with a family for a return to Paris this Saturday. Before this anniversary day, the president of the 2024 Paris Games shared his memories (“It was a year ago. It happened so quickly this year, it’s terrible… ”) and mentioned his future.
Le Figaro. – Close your eyes for a moment and go back to July 26, 2024, the morning of the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Do you remember your state of mind at the time of the big jump?
Tony ESTANGUET. – It was much better after the ceremony … In the morning, it was difficult. We have accumulated a lot of bad news. Nothing was going between the sabotages of the SNCF lines (Five “malicious acts” were committed on four lines of the territory), big breakdowns for us on …