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In October 2007, Tracy Mattes was recognized by Citywealth as one of the most inspirational residents of the Principality of Monaco for her entrepreneurial activities.

After a succesful international career as a high earning athlete, which meant training six to eight hours a day and a second career presenting and producing the evening news at NBC Tracy has been living in Monaco for four years. She came to the area after being invited to the Principality to train for the Modern Pentathlon which ended up turning her life around. Unfortunately a horse riding accident resulted in a fracture in her hand and put her out of action for competition.

Tracy took the unwanted rest initially with difficulty but her determined spirit prevailed and eventually she decided to hone her business skills completing an MBA, where she finished top of her class, earning her the Valedictorian Award, which HSH Prince Albert II and Greek tycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou, a Monaco resident, presented her with at her graduation ceremony. The Ceremony was held at the famous Monte Carlo Casino, in its historic Salle Garnier Opera House. It was the 20th Anniversary of the University of Monaco.

Tracy receives the University's highest honor from HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, achieving the title of Valedictorian of her 2006 MBA graduating class	HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Valedictorian Tracy Mattes, and Greek tycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou
The International University of Monaco's 2006 Graduates celebrate on the steps of the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo
Tracy Mattes receives her MBA diploma with Honors from University President Maxime Crener	The 2006 Class Valedictorian

At the same time Tracy came up with the idea of a business plan for a scientific Olympic Sports Training Centre in the region to help athletes prepare for high level competition. The centre would help coordinate training schedules at the many high level sporting facilities in Monaco, offer services like nutritional advice, health plans and accommodations for athletes in training, something that she had identified as missing throughout her well travelled career which spanned fifty-three countries.

She sat down and wrote a plan which she submitted to a Business Plan Competition during the 2004 Investors Week in Monte Carlo, where she won her first business award for the project plan, leading it to be snapped up by big name investors. The Business Plan Competition honored entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and created extraordinary business plans with high chances for success in areas such as innovation, risk taking, company development, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. British billionaire businessman Sir Phillip Green was one the panel of the judges who was extremely impressed with Tracy's business plan. Another famous British Business tycoon Stephen Rubin, Chairman of London based Pentland, which owns such world class brands such as Speedo, Lacoste, Berghaus, and formerly Reebok, became the key investor in Tracy's Monaco Olympic Training Project which put the wind beneath its wings to get the project off the ground.

Tracy recieves her first Business Award,
during the business plan competition
of the 2004 Investors Week
in Monte Carlo

Billionaire Entrepreneur Phillip Green speaks
during Investors Week;
Sir Phillip Green was one of the
judges who supported Tracy's Business Plan
to create an Olympic Training Center in Monaco

Hundreds of people attended the
Business Plan competition during
Monaco's 2004 Investors Week

Tracy put together an incredible board of directors which includes HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Olympic Champions and International Olympic Committee members Sergey Bubka, Pernilla Wiberg, Frankie Fredericks, and IOC Vice Mario Pescante. Mixing in the business side, other board members include Reggie Williams, Vice President of Walt Disney World Sports Attractions, Ambassador Dho Young Shim, Joel Bouzou, Dr. Michael McNamara, Christine Dominguez Director of GAISF, Maxime Crener, President of the International University of Monaco, Ms. Judy Churchill and Mr. Mike Powers, President of Monte Carlo Entertainment.

On March 3, 2006, the Government of Monaco officially formalized the company and listed it in the Official Journal de Monaco.

The building blocks are now being put into place to form the first ever world class scientific Olympic Training athletic 'home' in Monaco for international athletes.

On July 3, 2006, the project was officially launched with the first meeting of the entire board of directors in Monaco. The meeting was presided over by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

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Stephen Rubin, Tracy Mattes, HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Joel Bouzou, & Alain Leclerq
The Board of Directors launch the project for Monaco's Olympic Training Center
Mike Powers, Alain Leclercq, Ambassador Dho Young Shim, Joel Bouzou, Tracy Mattes, Maxime Crener, Laura Walden	The Athletes: Frankie Fredericks, Tracy Mattes, Joel Bouzou, Pernilla Wiberg, James Hickman
Olympic medallists and IOC members Frankie Fredericks and Pernilla Wiberg	Christine Dominguez, Dr. Michael McNamara, HSH Prince Albert II, Pernilla Wiberg, Alain Leclercq, Tracy Mattes
Stephen Rubin, Tracy Mattes, HSH Prince Albert II, Ambassador Dho Young Shim, Joel Bouzou

Although athletes like Tracy can earn a good living on the sport competition circuit, she says the life is a hard one and not all celebrity and limousines which is why she wants to get this training centre in place. "There was a lot of hardship in between races, there were times you didn't know how you were going to get from one to another, but it always turned out to be an adventure. What we are creating here in Monaco, with the Olympic Training Center, is something us athletes wish we would have had during our careers."

The project is a work in progress and has been in the middle of several land development deals. Currently the sporting facilities are in place to accommodate the training for 30 different Olympic Sports and in 2006 Monaco opened the doors to the Institiute of Sports Medicine and Sports Science. The final structure needed to complete the Olympic Training Center is the Home Base Facility which will house the athletes and provide a dining hall and handle the athlete's scheduling of facility use and sports medicine care if they need rehabilitation. The Olympic Training Center is projected to be complete in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.

For her next Entrepreneurial Project Tracy is currently working on a new start up company launching an Eco Friendly Sport Fashion Label.