A major player in winter sports in France, both in terms of learning and with a view to competitions, the École du Ski Français (ESF) today shows its support for the candidacy Olympic and Paralympic Games of the French Alps for the 2030 Games.
(Credits – French Ski School)
With more than 17,000 qualified instructors and present in the territory through 220 ski schools spread across the tricolor massifs, from the Alps to the Pyrenees, including the Massif Central, the Jura, the Vosges and Corsica, the ESF constitutes a real institution within the French winter sports ecosystem.
As such, and in light of its experience acquired since its creation in 1945, the École du Ski Français – largest structure of its type in the world – has chosen to engage with those behind the 2030 Olympic bid developed around the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Regions.
As the ESF announced:
These territories have many assets to host an event of such scale: spaces, equipment, sporting spirit, strong values of solidarity, determination and sharing, the historic practice of Olympic disciplines and, of course, men and women very attached to their mountain environment.
They also display their desire and ambition to make them the first sustainable Winter Olympics, Games that promote transitions in the mountain world, economical Games and popular Games..
(Credits – French Ski School / Alexis Boichard / AGENCE ZOOM)
The positioning of the ESF comes at a time when the French Alps candidacy is preparing to unveil in the coming weeks the outlines of a project – in particular the planned location of the sites – to the Future Host Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
While the candidacy has been coordinated since this summer by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), with the support of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF), this declaration from the French Ski School also comes shortly after the recent visit this month of a delegation of mobilized stakeholders to the headquarters of the Olympic institution in Lausanne (Switzerland).
