Marie Barsacq desires to use “the Paris 2024 method” to the sports activities ministry | EUROtoday

When she formally took up her new function as Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life on Tuesday, December 24, a number of hours earlier than Christmas Eve, Marie Barsacq made a whole lot of reference to Paris 2024.

It have to be stated that this fifty-year-old, who is without doubt one of the surprises within the authorities casting developed by François Bayrou – she was solely knowledgeable of her appointment on Monday – has labored for the final eight years inside the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympics (Cojop).

What’s extra, as govt director of this construction, she was accountable for implementing applications by way of which the Games might have an effect and go away a legacy, with, as a standard thread, the concept that “sport can change everything”. A “job description” not very far, briefly, from that of Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life. “I’m going to use the method I learned from Tony Estanguet”, the president of Paris 2024, declared M^me Barsacq in his speech throughout the switch of energy with Gil Avérous.

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