(ATR) A high-level meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron caps productive two weeks of meetings for Paris 2024 leaders.
Paris 2024 CEO Etienne Thobois led a three-person delegation to Lausanne earlier this week before boarding a train to Paris on Thursday. The IOC’s commissions are meeting all week at the Lausanne Palace Hotel where the transitional Organizing Committee briefed commission members.
On Wednesday, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet held the first in a series of athlete meetings to discuss the athlete role in the future Organizing Committee. Plans about the formation of the Athletes’ Commission and Athlete Ambassadors program were also featured during the meeting of 60 athletes at the elite French sports institute, INSEP.
The Athletes’ Commission will be formalized following the establishment of the official Organizing Committee that Around the Rings is told will be finalized by the end of January 2018.
Estanguet is now in Lausanne for the IOC Commissions meetings, a representative of the IOC Athletes' Commission that meets on Friday. Estanguet is the vice-chairman of the commission.
ATR understands Paris 2024 leaders will also meet with President Macron on Friday, Nov. 17. A Paris 2024 spokesperson confirmed the meeting will include Estanguet and is the next in a series of once-a-month meetings with the French President that began in July.
Also on Friday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will meet International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons in City Hall. It will be the first meeting between Hidalgo and Parsons since Paris won the 2024 Olympics at the Session in Lima, Peru this September.
In a statement released by Hidalgo’s office, the mayor said she hopes the Paralympics "will be as successful, visible and festive as the Olympics and it will allow Paris to accelerate its transformation to universal accessibility."
Mayor Hidalgo will meet Parsons after the IPC President meets with the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, Paris sports minister Laura Flessel, French Paralympic Committee President Emmanuelle Assman, Paris 2024 CEO Thobois and Paris 2024 bid co-chairman Bernard Lapasset. Parsons also met with Estanguet in Lausanne on Thursday.
Written by Edward Hula in Lausanne.
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