JEAN-ETIENNE AMAURY
PRESIDENT – AMAURY SPORTS ORGANISATION
His octogenarian mother, Marie Odile Amaury, remains the figurehead of the family owned Amaury Groupe. But when it comes to the day-to-day strategic direction of Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) and its glittering cycling operations, Jean-Etienne Amaury, 46, has risen to become one of the most powerful people in the sport since first assuming the ASO Presidency back in 2009. The direct boss of Christian Prudhomme (Tour de France Race Director) and Yann Le Moënner (ASO, CEO), Jean-Etienne Amaury has ultimate responsibility and influence over cycling’s biggest and most lucrative events.
Headlined by the Tour de France itself, the current ASO stable also includes Paris-Nice, Critérium du Dauphiné, Volta a Catalunya, La Flèche Wallonne, Tour de l’Avenir, Arctic Race of Norway, Paris–Tours, Tour of Oman, Deutschland Tour, Saudi (AlUla) Tour, L’Etape and Vuelta a España, which is organised by the Spanish-based ASO affiliate, Unipublic. If that’s not enough, ASO also owns Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, whilst the Amaury family has controlled the influential French sports newspaper, L’Equipe, since 1968. Such is the power wielded by ASO in modern cycling, the Amaury family has often been criticised for monopolising control of the sport, not to mention its finances.
AMINA LANAYA
DIRECTOR GENERAL – UCI
UCI President, David Lappartient gets the bulk of the media
