If the Parisian judicial police recently opened an investigation into the salary of Tony Estanguet, head of the organizing committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the emoluments of the former French champion had already been the subject of controversy in 2017. Le Canard Enchaîné stated at the time that Tony Estanguet would receive 450,000 euros at the head of the Organizing Committee.
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These figures were very quickly denied by the organizers.
“The amounts mentioned do not in any way constitute the remuneration of the president and the general director of the future Cojo (Organizing Committee) Paris 2024
,” responded the committee in a press release, regretting not having been contacted by the weekly which also assured that the Minister of Action and Public Accounts at the time, Gérald Darmanin, had commissioned the General Inspectorate of Finance
“in order to see more clearly the financial risks incurred by the State”
.
“Work on the remuneration of managers of the future Cojo Paris 2024 is just beginning”
and
“will be the subject of discussions with the founding members of Paris 2024”
such as the State, the city of Paris, the Île-de-France region , the French Olympic and Paralympic committees (CNOSF and CPSF), added Paris 2024.
In 2017, Tony Estanguet's salary had not yet been decided
In the columns of Le Figaro, Tony Estanguet returned to the weekly's assertions, assuring that
he "had nothing to reproach himself for"
in the matter of his remuneration.
“There are criticisms which are more or less justified.
For now, it doesn’t affect me
,” he continued, adding:
“I expected it but I didn’t think it would come so quickly”
“We must return to the reality of the facts, the figures released are in no way my salary, they came from a study carried out to evaluate the overall salary bill of the Games organizing committee in the light of past experiences (London Games , Rio, the Football World Cup in Brazil and Euro 2016). The question of the salary of the president of Paris 2024 has not yet been discussed since the Paris 2024 remuneration committee has not yet been formed, it will be in the coming weeks. We will use the same logic with experts who will make proposals,”
detailed the three-time Olympic canoe champion.
Tony Estanguet's salary was the subject of a declaration from Cojo in 2018: 270,000 euros gross annually until 2020. This remuneration was then likely to change within a limit of 20%, depending on certain performance criteria. , Cojop indicated at the time.