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French Polynesian athletes will no longer compete under the archipelago's flag at the Olympic Games because it is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee, the report said. Waves  last week. The French Polynesian surfer competing in Tokyo 2020 will represent France.

This is why we have started to see the top representative of the islands on the world tour, Michael Bourez, using the French flag from now on. He will fight with Jeremy Flores and Joan Duru for the two places per country that qualify for the Olympic Games and that have the CT as hierarchy 1 to determine the qualifiers.

The French Surfing Federation and the Tahitian Federation have been estranged since 1984 when French Polynesia gained autonomy from the ISA, Waves reported.

"Today, there is a different context, there is this desire to take into account all the overseas countries in order to build the best possible French team. The 2020 Games will be in Tokyo, the 2024 Games in Paris, so there is really a reflection on the part of the French Surfing Federation to think about Paris," said the president of the Tahitian Surfing Federation, Lionel Teihotu.