The 2030 Winter Games Organizing Committee is expanding. Wednesday, four appointments to strategic positions have been announced. Responsible for the strategic management of six sites for the Paris 2024 Games, Anne Murac will now assume the role of director of operations in the French Alps 2030 project. Mathilde Meurisse will be the sports director, after having also worked for Paris 2024, as Deputy Director of Sports Operations. She also participated in the organization of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games.
Blandine Vinagre-Rocca is appointed Director of Public Affairs. Chief of staff to the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, she led the regional candidacy of the French Alps 2030. Latest recruit: Élie Patrigeon, with the label of Director of Legacy, Impact and Sustainability. Having worked for the French Paralympic and Sports Committee as general director, he participated in " to five editions of the Games, on the organizational and institutional side ».
These four nominations come " consolidate a management team now fully operational to meet the ambitions of the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic project " reads the statement released Wednesday evening. " French Alps 2030 can now count on an experienced and equal team of nine directors mobilized around the general director Cyril Linette to move forward, from the start of the school year, on the main priorities of the project ", says Edgar Grospiron. Next step: the site map, which could be presented by the end of July.
