The organizing committee for the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Games announced on Friday the departure of its communications director, Arthur Richer. A new blow after the resignation in December of the director of operations. “The Cojop Alpes Françaises 2030 announces the departure of Arthur Richer, director of communications,” indicates the press release, without detailing the reasons for this departure.
A source close to the committee told AFP that “noting a disagreement on the strategy to be implemented, Arthur Richer proposed to the Cojop leadership to end their collaboration, which was accepted”.
“A recruitment process will be launched as soon as possible,” indicates the Cojop press release, which says it is “entirely focused on the continuation of its activities, and in particular of the communication system as part of its presence at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games” which take place from February 6 to 22.
Second resignation in a few weeks
He “welcomed the work accomplished” by Arthur Richer, who “professionalized and structured the communication function of Cojop, as part of the orchestration of the major institutional highlights of the French Alps 2030 and the implementation of a long-term strategy and system to build the reputation and image of the organization and the 2030 Games.”
In December, the committee’s director of operations, Anne Murac, resigned just five months after her arrival. This was already part of the organization chart for the Paris 2024 Games as head of the Île-de-France “cluster”. Within Cojop, she notably supervised the “site map”, not yet definitively decided, but which must allocate the competitions of the different disciplines to each of the four major centers, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Nice and Briançonnais.
