Tony Estanguet, president of Paris 2024, opened Friday afternoon in the premises of Pulse (the headquarters of the organizing committee) the meeting of heads of mission from around 200 countries to participate in the next Olympic Games.
For five days, the latter will be presented with the Paris 2024 project, particularly the various practical aspects concerning athletes, with, among other things, a visit to various sites and the Olympic village, straddling Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen and Île-Saint-Denis on Monday morning.
Tony Estanguet presented the characteristics of these Games, the “three great values” on which they are based: “excellence, creativity and the notion of sharing”. He insisted on the fact that the organizing committee was on time, whether in relation to the delivery of the sites or in terms of the budget.
The President of Paris 2024 also wished to reassure the representatives of the Olympic committees with regard to the recent searches carried out recently by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) at the headquarters of the OCOG, Solideo, the sports marketing agency Keneo as well as at the homes of Étienne Thobois (General Manager) and Édouard Donnelly (Executive Director of Operations), former shareholders of Keneo, who were both in the gallery.
Tony Estanguet insisted on Games which must be “responsible from an ethical point of view”. “We know that the image of the Games, the reputation of the Games, also depends on our ability to set up extremely fierce, robust procedures in terms of ethics. »
“You have surely seen it, in recent weeks, Paris 2024 has been the subject of numerous checks and I want to share with you the fact that Paris 2024 is in a process of co-construction, of collaboration with all of these French authorities. who wish to control the validity of these elements, he assured. This is why, from the beginning, we have put in place procedures concerning all the awarding of contracts, all of our behavior, with the ethics committee. An ethics committee, chaired by Jean-Marc Sauvé who, for Estanguet, contributes to “the success of responsible gaming, from an ethical point of view and from a social point of view”.
The C1 2022 final, an “unfortunate incident”
The interministerial delegate for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Michel Cadot came to underline to the participants “the complete involvement of the State” also welcoming that “in a country sometimes a little turbulent like ours”, deadlines and budgets are respected. . He insisted on the efforts made in terms of security indicating “having learned the lessons” of the 2022 final of the Champions League described as an “unfortunate incident” while France organized, “for decades”, sporting events without ever having a problem.
Michel Cadot gave them an appointment on Saturday to talk more specifically about the security of the Games and in particular the opening ceremony on the Seine on July 26, 2024. In the meantime, the heads of missions are invited by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo to watch the July 14 fireworks display at the Trocadéro.
2023-07-14 16:16:21
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