2030 Olympics: announcement of a new partner postponed due to internal tensions

According to Le Parisien, the announcement this Wednesday of a new partner of the organizing committee for the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games was postponed due to an “important week”, including an executive office this Thursday which could look, once again, at the place and future of Edgar Grospiron, at the head of the body. Since the beginning of the adventure and the awarding of the Olympic Games as the opening of the Paris 2024 Games, at the end of an express candidacy completed in just a few months, tensions, tensions, dissensions have multiplied and threatened the balance and the future of the project.

After the resignation of Martin Fourcade on February 3, 2025, whom Emmanuel Macron had presented as the “Tony Estanguet of the mountains”, Edgar Grospiron was officially appointed head of Cojop on February 18, 2025. If the Olympic mogul champion from the Albertville Olympics in 1992 was not a candidate, he then embraced the project, took up the challenge and saw the difficulties follow one another, such as the finalization of the map of sites (without Nice, with ice hockey established in Lyon, speed skating in Heerenveen in the Netherlands...), without forgetting the governance problems and divorces (in particular Cyril Linette, the general director, Anne Murac the director of operations, Arthur Richer the director of communications and Bertrand Méheu the president of the remuneration committee) which, during the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, overshadowed the thick file, highlighted the differences.