The French Minister of Sports and the Olympics, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, wants to
“hunt for gaspi”
and asked the IOC on Tuesday to
“revise the specifications a little downwards”
in view of the Paris Olympics in front of an audience. of members of the International Olympic Committee.
"We will have to deal with the adverse effects of inflation"
while the budget of the organizing committee (Cojo) was built with an assumption of an inflation rate of 1.4%, recalled the minister and this then that the global economy is seizing up.
“Sometimes it will be necessary to discuss certain specifications with you again and see the reasonable side of revising them a little downwards”
, she said to the address of the members of the IOC gathered at the headquarters of the organizing committee in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, within the framework of the coordination commission of the IOC
.
"Reduce all forms of costs and be on the hunt for 'waste'"
, she added.
"There is no place for bureaucracy, there is no place for unnecessary coordination costs
," she said.
The Cojo must revise its budget, currently 4 billion euros, at the end of 2022 but the exercise has become much more complicated since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
On the spending side, everything is scrutinized and on the revenue side, he has not yet garnered all the sponsors he was expecting (target of 1.1 billion).
The budget is made up of sponsors, ticketing revenue and a contribution from the IOC.
“It may sometimes be necessary to work on optimizations, and sometimes on optimizations of lesser recipes”
, also launched Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
IOC Coordination Commission Chairman Pierre-Olivier Beckers called it
“remarkable”
to be at this stage
“on time”
and
“on budget”
despite the constraints of Covid and inflation. .
“We need to work even closer than ever
,” he added.
“In the current context, with the health, economic and geopolitical crises that have been linked for two years, keeping the level of ambition to the end will be a real challenge.
We are going to need your help to find new sources of optimization and to go even further in the savings to be made»
, chained the boss of the Paris Olympics, Tony Estanguet, alongside the new Paris police chief, Laurent Nunez, and the interministerial delegate to the Olympic Games Michel Cadot.
In the morning, during a visit to the site of the Olympic village in Saint-Denis, which should be completed in six months, the general manager of Solideo, Nicolas Ferrand, assured the IOC that he would be on time:
"we are right on time”
.
