(ATR) Paris 2024 co-president Bernard Lapasset is back in the office this week after minor surgery.
Advised by his doctor not to travel after the surgery in March, Lapasset was not able to attend SportAccord Convention last week in Aarhus, Denmark. His absence was the first time in years he’s missed the convention. For eight years until stepping down in 2016, he served as president of international federation World Rugby. In 2013 he ran unsuccessfully for SportAccord president.
Lapasset, 69, is co-leader of the Paris bid with Tony Estanguet. An Olympic rower, Estanguet is a member of the IOC by virtue of his status as an elected member of the IOC Athletes Commission. Estanguet was a part of the sizable team from Paris in Aarhus that included the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, French NOC president Denis Masseglia, senior IOC member in France Guy Drut and CEO Etienne Thobois.
Los Angeles, the other city in the race for the 2024 Olympics, it should be noted, matched the Paris delegation toe to toe at SportAccord Convention.
Lapasset will be at full speed by mid-May, when the IOC Evaluation Commission visits the French capital. The panel starts out in Los Angeles May 9-12, followed by Paris from May 13-16.
Written by Ed Hula.
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