In the middle of a media tour, Edgar Grospiron stopped at the TV L’Équipe Thursday, February 20. Very comfortable, the president of the 2030 Winter Games Organizing Committee recalled his desire to launch the project without delay. "The deadlines are not that far away, we have to be in action quickly so we will have to attack the slope, he said, using the sports metaphor. The first challenge is to structure an organization that works. For it to work, the concept that has been determined will have to be tied up, budgeted in detail, so that the organization that I am going to set up can work and move forward as quickly as possible. The challenge is there, in the first three or four months, to go tie up this device properly and budget it down to the last cent that we will implement in five years."
The one who is now presented as “the Tony Estanguet of the mountains” hopes to follow in the footsteps of one of the great architects of the success of Paris 2024, but in his own way. "Tony did a great job. It's for me a source of inspiration. Afterwards, I am not Tony Estanguet. I have my personality, my way of being, my way of doing, my experience. My method will probably be different of Tony's », he warns. The 1992 Albertville Olympic moguls ski champion was also questioned about one of the big question marks on the map of sites: Val d'Isère, which would not host any events in the current configuration. "I will have to provide arguments to say whether or not Val d'Isère has its place on the map, with figures, know at what price, under what conditions, replies the man from Haute-Savoie. I start in a neutral position. I will have to form an opinion on the subject. I will have this opinion after the experts have been through. Then, I will have to defend what seems to me to be best for the project to the executive board and a collegiate decision will be taken. I am not here to impose things, I am here to convince of what is good for the project. My voice counts, but it does not dominate the others."
