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Jean-Philippe Gatien leaves the adventure
— Published January 27, 2023
Paris 2024
A hard blow for the COJO Paris 2024. Jean-Philippe Gatien (photo above), the former table tennis player who won an Olympic silver medal in 1992 and then world singles champion the following year, is leaving his role as sports director. Reason given: “ personal reasons“. Aged 54, Jean-Philippe Gatien was part of the Paris 2024 adventure from the start of the project. Director of sports during the application phase, he then retained the same function when the COJO was created. Considered since the first days as one of the pillars of the project, appreciated by all and very committed to his mission, he had been forced to take several months of rest to recover from a burnout, after the revelation in 2019 of the four additional sports chosen by the COJO. He will be replaced at the head of the sports department by Aurélie Merle, the number 2 in the department, also involved in the adventure from
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A family business
France was living through its “Trente Glorieuses”, the thirty-year post-war boom, consumer culture was on the rise, and recreational activities were gaining a foothold in the lives of the French. The BHV, a large Paris department store, decided to cater to this new situation by adding new products to its catalog, including ping pong tables. Information from a neighboring company lead BHV to Cornilleau, where they put in an order for 300 tables. This was in May 1969, and BHV wanted the tables ready for Christmas. Emile didn’t have the necessary machinery to fulfill such a large order. His son, Pierre, convinced him to take on the challenge. The Cornilleau family invested all their savings in equipment, taking a small carpentry business to an industrial scale capable of fulfilling large orders within short deadlines. And their bet paid off: BHV, happy with this first collaboration, came back with an additional order – and other stores would follow. Cornilleau&
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