Overview
- Savoie’s council president Hervé Gaymard notified organizing chief Edgar Grospiron in a 1 December letter of a suspension from preparatory meetings, with a copy sent to Sports Minister Marina Ferrari.
- Gaymard wrote that Savoie was not consulted on the bid or the initial site map and said the department refuses to be treated as a “budget adjustment variable.”
- The council said it will stay out of coordination discussions until further notice but will not retract earlier financial commitments.
- Savoie cited more than €11 million invested since 1992 in the Courchevel ski jump and La Plagne bobsleigh track, investments it says helped secure the Games for the French Alps.
- Concluding a three‑day visit, IOC officials expressed strong confidence in preparations, while unresolved items include Val d’Isère’s place on the site map, the speed skating oval’s location, the Paralympic footprint, and the passage of an Olympic law and state guarantees.