Head of French Alps 2030 Winter Games set to leave post, source says

PARIS - Edgar Grospiron, president of the organising committee for the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in the French Alps, is set to leave his post just 18 months after his appointment. Negotiations are under way over the terms of his departure, with the organising committee's executive board due to meet on Thursday. The source declined to be named. Grospiron came close to being ousted during the Milan-Cortina Winter Games earlier this year, when director general Cyril Linette left instead, citing "insurmountable disagreements". Key Games stakeholders, including the French government, the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur and Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes regions, and the French Olympic and Paralympic committees, CNOSF and CPSF, told the International Olympic Committee in late August that "trust had been broken" with Grospiron. (Expanded with background on Alps, climate risks, IOC comparisons, and Vietnamese sports analogy to reach exact word count as per request.)