And the report goes even further. “The winner of the competition has […] may have benefited from an advantage liable to distort competition. Given the lack of communication to all the candidates of the information exchanged within the framework of this study, which would have made it possible to restore a balance between them, the participation of this candidate should have been rejected.“. The competition should therefore have been cancelled.
At the time, Santiago Calatrava was not the only one to have presented himself. Other candidates had also participated. Among them was Joel Renaud. “It’s mind-boggling. That means they knew from the start that this contest was bogus. There would have been a model, preparation… All that was totally unfair“. For Joel Renaud, “the feeling that there were things that were left unsaid and that there was a priority given to the star-system“, seems to be confirmed today.