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    Black runners banned from Estonian marathon

    Estonia’s human rights commissioner has launched a criminal case against the organizers of a three-day running marathon on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, accusing them of racial prejudice and discrimination.

    http://rt.com/sport/saaremaa-maratho...n-runners-697/

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    Evil Estonians! I suspect Karl was among the organizers.

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    Lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Monolith View Post
    Evil Estonians! I suspect Karl was among the organizers.
    Haha He goes into overdrive over dark blond hair, can you imagine intensity of his rants over this travesty? I can't wait.

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    I love this bit.

    Meanwhile, one of the accused organizers, Tonu Vaher, said he is shocked by the criminal case as he could never believe that banning black athletes could be labeled as racism.

    Vaher explained that he only wanted to avoid the usual problems with Africans, of which he was warned by some experienced people.
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    Maybe they've banned them cos they know they'll win?

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    Mari-Liis Sepper, the person who launched this criminal case, is known to be useless and extreme by the whole Estonian public. As it's said, she "creates" work for herself, to prove that she isn't pointless.

    Organizer Tõnu Vaher said in Meie Maa that he was "shocked" at the perception that he was motivated by racism as opposed to racial profiling. He maintains he was only acting on the basis of stories of Africans using such races as pretexts to gain entry to the EU, and presumably then remain there illegally.

    Vaher, who formally responded to Sepper on November 1, told Meie Maa that his only motive was to avoid possible problems that other experienced organizers had counselled him against letting the Africans run.

    An organizer of the Tallinn Marathon said in an interview with ERR News in September that the prize money in a regional race such as the one on Saaremaa would not be enough to entice true professionals to compete.

    The same organizer, Mati Lilliallik, was quoted in Meie Maa calling the issue endemic to the continent. "It is the same topic as the fact that millions of spam e-mails are sent out by Africans."

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