Maxine Esteban will now represent the Ivory Coast in all international competitions we heard two weeks ago.

Reports from neighborhood news sources in the Philipines broke out on Thursday, June 1 that Maxine Esteban is taking her abilities to West Africa’s Ivory Coast as she proceeds with her quest for contending in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

The Philippine Fencing Affiliation (PFA) is completely supporting her choice to change ethnicities and recorded a request to the Worldwide Fencing League (FIE) to promptly forgo the three-year residency rule.

PFA President Richard Gomez, who is a neighborhood entertainer turned-legislator that addressed the Philippines in the 1995 and 2005 versions of the Southeast Asian (Ocean) Games, had the accompanying to say regarding her turn.

“We support her difference in identity portrayal to Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) where she is likewise a naturalized resident,” Gomez was said to have written in a letter to FIE Chief Nathalie Rodriguez as handed off by CNN Philippines.

“As we have faith in and support the Olympic soul that sports know no ethnicities, we are glad for Maxine for her choice, and as such we are mentioning for the FIE to defer the three-year holding up time of her portrayal in Côte d’Ivoire so she can proceed, without interference, all preparation and cooperation in all FIE contests.”

The previous College Sports Relationship of the Philippines Season 81 The latest phenom with Ateneo de Manila College has had incredible worldwide accomplishments all through her young vocation and, surprisingly, guaranteed a bronze and silver decoration at the 2019 and 2022 Ocean Games

As per her Instagram post at that point, her energy had to a stop in the wake of supporting an upper leg tendon and PCL tear at the 2022 World Closing Title in Cairo, Egypt in July, delivering her unfit to contend.