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Laura Flessel is an icon of French fencing, specializing in épée. She is a five-time Olympic medalist, six-time world champion, one-time European champion, and eighteen-time French champion.

Nicknamed "The Wasp" due to her intense activity on the piste that destabilized her opponents, she remains the most decorated French female athlete at the Olympics across all disciplines. She first emerged on the international scene in 1995, winning a bronze medal in individual competition and a silver in the team event at the World Championships. However, it was at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games where Laura Flessel firmly established herself by winning two gold medals, in both individual and team épée, during the first-ever inclusion of women’s épée in the Olympics.

For over sixteen years, she continued to dominate the world of fencing, competing in five Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012. She also participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics as a coach. Laura was the flag bearer for the French Olympic team at the London 2012 Games.

Alongside her sporting career, Laura Flessel has been actively involved in humanitarian and charitable causes. As an ambassador for several NGOs, she advocates for equality, solidarity, and the promotion of women's sports. Before the 2017 presidential election, she met with Emmanuel Macron to present her ideas for reforms in the field of sports, notably the "Maisons Sport-Santé" initiative.
In 2017, she was appointed Minister of Sports in Édouard Philippe's government, where she served for just over a year. As part of her professional transition, Laura is now the Director of the SER (Sport Excellence & Reconversion) school, which she founded in partnership with the Ace group to help elite athletes successfully transition to post-sport careers. A certified mental coach with a degree in Management of Excellence Teams (MEE), and president-founder of Sport’S, an association dedicated to promoting sports in France and internationally, Laura Flessel is a woman of challenges who continues to follow her path and push boundaries.

Representative of the Monegasque Olympic Committee

Member of the Board of Directors of the Monegasque Ski Federation for about thirty years, Mr Robert Colle was President from 1998 to 2005. He was part of the Monegasque Olympic Committee delegation at the Salt Lake City and Turin Olympic Games. Since 2005 he has been Vice-President of the Federation.

Mr Robert Colle was Secretary General of the Ministry of State and then Secretary General of the Government of the Principality of Monaco from 2005 to February 2022.

Pauline Déroulède started playing wheelchair tennis after an accident in 2018. While she was stationary on her scooter, she was hit by a car, which led to the amputation of her leg, thus turning her life upside down.
Pauline has always been motivated by the idea of surpassing herself, achieving success, and making progress. She is a model of tenacity and resilience. She managed to rebuild herself and excel in her new discipline, wheelchair tennis, achieving excellent results. Her passion for competition intensified, and with great determination, she quickly rose in the rankings and joined the French National Team. Today, Pauline is the number one player in France, ranked in the Top 20 worldwide, and already a three-time French champion.

With an unwavering determination, Pauline Déroulède has ambitious goals in several areas.
On the sporting front, she follows a rigorous training regimen in an attempt to win a medal at the Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024 and to break into the top 10 in the world rankings.
On a societal level, she has been advocating since her accident for changes in the law to make driving aptitude tests mandatory throughout a person's life, a test that could have prevented her accident.
Drawing on her life experience, she explains how to transcend oneself after a hardship, set goals, achieve them, and thus rise again.

Mathieu Forget, also known as Forgetmat, is an artist in motion.
Originally from Paris, he is a dancer, photographer, and artistic director, embodying a new vision of dance, capturing its essence in his visual work. A former tennis player, Mathieu Forget aims to promote freedom of expression, self-improvement, and challenges our perception of the world. His art is about capturing a fleeting moment of his levitating movement in photographs.
Also known as the Flying Man, thanks to his photos and videos, this multidisciplinary artist defies the laws of physics and blends various styles. He shares his creations on social media, democratizing art with his globally accessible gallery. Passionate about architecture, lines, and colors, Mathieu Forget highlights the world around him by creating dizzying and poetic concepts.
After numerous collaborations with artists, athletes, and international brands, this multidisciplinary artist continues to explore new creative universes. In anticipation of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Mathieu Forget collaborates with many French athletes and makes sport fly.

Céline Jobert is a key figure in sports marketing in France. A graduate of EFAP in 1998, she is now at the helm of The Fan Syndicate, the first independent communications group dedicated to the sports industry in France. With a unique vision, Céline supports rights holders, partner brands, and companies whose core business is sports, in developing innovative and engaging communication strategies aimed at sports fans and athletes. Whether it’s branding or advertising her goal is clear: to make sports even more attractive and connected to its audiences.

Before founding The Fan Syndicate, Céline co-founded Lafourmi in 2008, a pioneering creative agency dedicated to the sports sector, and later acquired Leroy Tremblot in 2017, a brand design agency. Her journey demonstrates her total commitment to the sports industry, with numerous successes such as the 360 campaign The Flow for Puma, which won several awards in France and internationally.
For Céline, the path to entrepreneurship is demanding and requires significant expertise. Her advice to future entrepreneurs: first, master your craft and gain experience before embarking on the adventure.

Stephane Le Goff has a postgraduate degree in political science and is passionate about sport. He was a Grand Reporter for Canal + for over 30 years, from 1989 to 2018. An assiduous sportsman, he has made it his mission to shed light and to challenge preconceived ideas about a multitude of sporting disciplines. He has made around fifty documentaries, some of which have won awards.

Stéphane Le Goff has received two "Micros d'Or" awards for best documentary. His film "Anger within", on the life of Jonah Lomu, the All Blacks iconic player, was used by World Rugby to promote rugby around the world. He also won an award at the Monaco SPORTEL in 2019.

A respected Grand Reporter, he has covered a dozen Olympic Games, but also a dozen World Cups in many sports (rugby, football, skiing...), the Copa America and the US Open. Stephane Le Goff is now a volunteer on the boards of several sports associations.

European Champion in 2013, Florent Pietrus is a prominent figure in French basketball. With 230 caps for the French National Team, he contributed to his team's international success throughout his professional career. Now, he is dedicated to developing basketball in the Caribbean, where he hails from, and in Africa, where he organizes annual training camps.

A member of the Athletes' Commission of the French Olympic Committee, he has joined the Peace and Sport Champions Club to share the values of sport with as many people as possible, especially young people.
His commitment led him to participate on the field in October 2023 during the Friendship Games in Colombia, as part of the PeaceMakers project.

Representative of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee

Jackson Richardson was born on June 14, 1969, in Saint-Pierre (La Réunion).
A true legend of French handball, he participated in four editions of the Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004) and won the bronze medal with the French team in Barcelona in 1992. He was also the flag bearer for the French delegation at the Sydney Games in 2000. Jackson Richardson has 417 caps with the French national team.

For the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Jackson Richardson was appointed Olympic Mission Chief for the French delegation by CNOSF President David Lappartient.
His role was to ensure that the athletes and their support teams were in the best possible conditions, to accompany them before and during the competition, and to be the spokesperson for the French team, upholding Olympic values.