Tahiti Games
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IN 1971
French Polynesia will host the Fourth South Pacific Games in August, 1971. This was decided by the South Pacific Games Council during the Third South Pacific Games in Port Moresby.
The Games would normally be held in 1972 but they would have clashed with the Olympic Games in Munich. The council, faced with the decision of 1971 or 1973, chose 1971. French Polynesia made the only appli cation for the Games and facili ties in and around Papeete on Tahiti are underway.
The council also decided to drop one sport, rugby union, from the compulsory section of the Tahiti Games because of the big size of a rugby team. Other compulsory sports, athletics, swimming, soccer, tennis and basketball, have been retained and two new optional sports— archery and underwater fishing— have been added to the pro gramme.