This March 24 discussion of Finns at 2016 EMA General Assembly was deleted from Facebook.
A couple days ago, the
Facebook group for European Masters Athletics went from open to closed ā meaning new members have to be approved by the admins. One reason for the change is the apparent effort to purge critics of EMA President
Kurt Kaschke of Germany, including German masters track blogger
Axel Hermanns. His
recent post at Lampis.net is headlined: āKaschke has abolished freedom of expression as an āErdogan for the poor,āā a reference to the Turkish president gaining dictator powers. Also noted is the erasure of a mini-scandal ā that Finnish delegates didnāt attend the March 2016 General Assembly in Ancona, Italy, where a new EMA Constitution was debated. A
screen shot of the FB page on March 23 shows an image of a āvote listā with no Finns present. But
Vesa Lappalainen, the former vice president of EMA, reportedly insists that his fellow Finns were present. A well-placed source tells me: āThe same mysterious disappearance happened on
EMA website, where all news from April 2 (2016) till December 31 (2016) are deleted.ā Of course, nothing is EVER fully deleted from the Intertubes. You can still see many or all of
those missing posts via the Internet Archiveās Wayback Machine. So nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! Meanwhile, a new
āFriends of EMAā Facebook page has launched. Anyone can join.
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Madrid will host the 2018 Eurovets indoor meet, Prez Kurt announces:
http://european-masters-athletics.org/news-overview/1457-emaci-2018-in-madrid.html
How was site chosen? I have no clue.
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