While the question of his future has been tirelessly asked of him since the end of the Paralympic Games, the boss of Paris 2024 has always responded that he must complete his mission which takes him until spring 2025. Just to do it assessment, particularly financial, of the organizing committee, to report here and there and to participate in hearings… While some predicted a political destiny for him, the three-time Olympic canoe champion (C1) insisted, on the set of France 2, on September 10: “ There are other ways to serve your country, and today I am more effective and useful in other areas than politics ».
The cabinet of Prime Minister Michel Barnier, appointed five days earlier to Matignon, still tried its luck by proposing to the boss of Paris 2024 to take the head of the Ministry of Sports. An offer that Tony Estanguet declined. Faithful to its desire, repeated many times, to complete the adventure of the organizing committee which will not be dissolved until next year.
And after? When we asked the question in August to the President of the Republic, who has regularly met the boss of Paris 2024 face to face since 2017, he got away with a pirouette on the possibility of a ministerial morocco. But the head of state explained to us: “ I think he has a very great future, I will talk about it with him and I will do everything to help him in the future. “. To be continued.
