The Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris owe so much to Bernard Lapasset

2023-05-03 16:01:20

Without him, Paris would perhaps never have obtained the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024. Bernard Lapasset, who died Tuesday at the age of 75, was the strong man of the French candidacy. “We owe him a lot, believes Guy Drut, member of the IOC, who accompanied Bernard Lapasset during the candidacy phase. I will keep the image of a very affable, very sympathetic man, who had a real human and sporting dimension. »