A stable budget for the Organizing Committee for the 2030 Alpine Games, still without a president

The organizing committee for the 2030 French Alps Games adopted a new budget on Monday October 12, stable over one year, after having included the transfer of the ice center to Lyon and the sports program, but remains without a president a month after the departure of Edgar Grospiron. In October 2025, the body responsible for organizing the next Winter Games in the Alps adopted its very first multi-annual budget, set at 2.132 billion euros. This financial framework is subject to review every year.

In the new version adopted Monday by the board of directors, Cojop notably included the repatriation of the ice events from Nice to Lyon following the refusal of the new mayor Eric Ciotti to install a temporary ice rink in the Baie des Anges football stadium. This budget also takes into account the entry into the sports program of the 2030 Olympic Games of freeride and synchronized figure skating as well as new events such as biathlon or ski mountaineering - all generating more operational costs but also additional ticket revenue. “After having made significant changes to the map of sites, validated an enriched sports program and better evaluated its operations, Alpes 2030 maintains a stable budget compared to 2025 (+0.1%)”, at 2.135 billion euros, according to a press release.

The position of president of Cojop still vacant

It is specified that this budget is financed "by private resources up to 73%", compared to 74% in the previous version. Vincent Roberti, number two at Cojop and interim president, told a few journalists that the body was counting on "a public contribution which will be at least equal (to last year), or even up to 15 million more", but "this is still under discussion". We must wait for “the deliberations” of the two organizing regions and the State. To complete this “controlled” budget, Cojop also drew 42 million from its reserve for contingencies, “corresponding to the integration of now certain costs”.

At the beginning of October, Solideo, responsible for delivering the Olympic infrastructure, had revised public contributions to investments planned for 2030 downward by 204 million euros, mainly because Lyon will use existing structures for the ice center, while in Nice a new sports complex was to be built. Concerning the succession of Edgar Grospiron, who resigned on September 10 following a serious governance crisis, "for the moment there are still discussions, the process is not complete. I think that the sooner the better, it is good to have a face, a personality at the head of Cojop, but at this stage it is not completely mature", commented Vincent Roberti. The former president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, is a serious contender for the position, according to several sources.