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    FINN SAILORS PROTEST

    Aug 09, 2019 4 minutes

    Open letter from the undersigned comprising sailors at the 2019 Finn World Masters Skovshoved, Denmark

    To Kim Andersen President of World Sailing

    June 2019

    Dear Mr Andersen, Following the controversial decision made by the World Sailing Council in November 2018 to drop the Finn from the Olympic programme, and the voting scandal surrounding that decision, we respectfully ask that you support, by whatever means necessary, the return of the Finn class into the Olympic programme. We are all male athletes over 85kg so these athletes will be lost to Olympic sailing. Even the Mixed Offshore Keelboat will inevitably favour athletes of lower

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