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IOC president Thomas Bach, right, shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron after Bach announced that the French Alps was named as the 2030 Winter Games host at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Paris, France.David Goldman\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Organizers of the 2030 French Alps Olympics confirmed Wednesday the departure of their chief executive officer following weeks of internal turmoil.<\/p>\n

They said the exit of Cyril Linette \u2013 who was at loggerheads with Edgar Grospiron, the former Olympic champion freestyle skier who leads the organizing committee \u2013 was formally acknowledged during a meeting of the executive board last weekend.<\/p>\n

Organizers said the decision reflected a collective desire for a \u201cnew momentum through renewed governance\u201d ahead of a key phase of their project.<\/p>\n

Tensions have multiplied in recent months, against a backdrop of several resignations, culminating in open conflict between Grospiron and Linette. Their feud was just the latest episode in a saga of turbulences that have weakened the project.<\/p>\n

Olympic speed skater Laurent Dubreuil denounces lack of amateur athlete funding<\/a><\/p>\n

It followed the successive resignations of chief operating officer Anne Murac, communications director Arthur Richer, as well as the departure of Bertrand M\u00e9heut, who was in charge of the remuneration committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stakeholders reaffirm their commitment to the success of the 2030 French Alps Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,\u201d organizers said. \u201cThe collective priority remains the continuation of the work already underway in service of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

The French Alps Winter Games \u2013 with speed skating destined to go abroad to Turin, Italy, or Heerenveen in the Netherlands, where venues already exist \u2013 has always been on the tightest timeline of any modern Olympics.<\/p>\n

Like this month\u2019s Milan Cortina Olympics, the French Alps has a split between snow sports in the mountains and skating in a snow-free city, the French Riviera resort Nice.<\/p>\n

Speed skating events are likely to be held abroad at an existing venue to avoid the high costs of building a suitable rink, with the Thialf Arena in Heerenveen or the Oval Lingotto in Turin among the contenders.<\/p>\n

A definitive map of the sites has yet to be adopted and is expected to be decided by the end of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: IOC president Thomas Bach, right, shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1064,50,1051,1065,1042,1040,1066,563,1039,1057,1058,1054,1041,1038,39,1062,457,1056,1049,1077,1043,1044,70,1052,1053,899,1067,1047,1072,1073,1075,1070,1074,1068,1071,1045,1060,1061,69,1059,1069,1050,789,1063,1055,1048,1046,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-19591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-alps","10":"tag-arts-news","11":"tag-bc","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-breaking-news-video","14":"tag-british-columbia","15":"tag-canada","16":"tag-canada-news","17":"tag-canada-sports","18":"tag-canada-sports-news","19":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","20":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","21":"tag-canadian-news","22":"tag-economy","23":"tag-education","24":"tag-environment","25":"tag-federal-government","26":"tag-foreign-news","27":"tag-globe-and-mail","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","29":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","30":"tag-government","31":"tag-life-news","32":"tag-lifestyle","33":"tag-local-news","34":"tag-manitoba","35":"tag-national-news","36":"tag-new-brunswick","37":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}