France's Sports Minister Marina Ferrari, next to Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes regional president Fabrice Pannekoucke (L), The president of the Alpes 2030 Organising Committee Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux (C-L), Former French Prime Minister Michel Barnier (C-R) and director general of the Organising Committee for the Alps 2030 Winter Olympics Vincent Roberti (R), speaks to journalists at the headquarters of the Alpes 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee (COJOP) in Decines-Charpieu, near Lyon, eastern France on October 29, 2026. Six weeks after Edgar Grospiron's resignation, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, the former president of France's largest employers' association (Medef), has been appointed as the new president of the Alpes 2030 Organising Committee. (Photo by Alex MARTIN / AFP via Getty Images)