so i mean that microsoft thing and to be holding things this slow. oh guess. so that's a beacon lots well it's happening championships, health, almost exclusively in europe for africans like sammy missouri. that can be an obstacle for us to go out and participate in an events to develop the country. we have to get lots of documents submitting all those documents. he's not a 100 percent. like we are going to get to be this. so there is someone behind this somewhere. we'll have to decide, i'll check on different minutes and decide whether we are going to go out or not. the few natural landscapes are basis to use it for solemn kind of training. then central can use to gone over the god you sent me to

recruit up just steps from its banks of this region was chosen to host the african championships. will slalom kayaking in 2015. he began to see the what was his with fresh eyes. i used to see him fed somewhat from that eva, taking the back home and i was young of uh we had that obligation to ship everyone around. what did they quote? so these are big support. this big suppose inspired sammy and he started to become a kayak pioneer and kenya with minimal equipment. so guys, i'm ready for the team today. so that's my head minutes. my jacket in my face, got my bottle used to be a kind of bottle double blade on one blade. good. broken that's available. uh stick. i decided to improvise, but i figured it out and i use it for my training. and so improvisation is key.

somebody is preparing to take part in the can this loan and world cup in spain and the world championships in london, which double as the qualifies for the powers and impacts. he's kenya aware of the resource gap between the gear he has and what's available in europe. most of the other the lives in france and they have easy access on kayaks and so they keep prints for us to get maybe like a bottle of a kayak in the country. it will cost a lot like the k x we are using right now. the old old button, we just tried to maintain them because we know it's hard to get any of the equipments down here for the last few months. a few weeks we have been training very hard. he's a tough as lead now. about the 1st steps on the what was the were not so easy. when i joined the club this i don't club. and i said i would,

i had some friends who helped me for me. i do enjoy every minute when i'm in there what the tire. instead of my main thing, i told him maybe in winning that with these by a couple of people. and i just want to see the packing going and coming a big boat slalom kayaking involves completing a course of hunting gates and the fastest time possible. green gates are crossed while moving down stream. red gates must be crossed in an upstream direction. as states in europe, often training into a facilities with artificial rivers and 5 o'clock gates. but here on this, the gone to semi and his friends make do with what they have in 10 years. so if you meant infrastructure, you have the most charge us compared to other countries. this loan get uh,

so important on that is uh you have to maneuver that on the, uh, getting for uh reviews, being and cable that we have like both types. so we painted them green and red just to identify the upstream on the dos you get. yeah, that's our own. we own house to do a level 40, if as if disposing and equipment related obstacles weren't enough. the biggest challenge lies ahead for sammy guessing. visa is in the capital, nairobi we seen how i would like 1010 days before we fly out for our form of edition. uh for the couple of days we, we've not been saying we've been tonight. it will be almost for like $34.00 days. stressful. uh, going full uh through defense offices. uh, looking for

a visa and all that. but yesterday and today, uh, we had a chance to do a training. that's why i have a smile on my, on my face. i like what, uh and this is almost like going, but the stress of his visa sagas, seeing returns at home, piles of documents are still waiting to be submitted to the spanish and purchased embassies. a complicated process. yeah. for us to go out and participate in an event which is outside country. we have to get lots of documents is uh like passports because invitations late does our bank statements uh, premium. okay. uh, record statements and all that stuff. i don't know why they do ask for all those documents in as an identity. you seem to have something to come back home for like you have a happy family. you have like

a duties from home. you will not kind that i would we yeah. if you go out there, you're not like going and thing definitely in the let's it doesn't feel comfortable for you. yes. all those kind of questions and you're just going for sportsmen 10 bucks on. so if i don't get a chance the on the on these events, and i'll have to wait for another like 4 or 5 years to say more and wait for like the nic calling because somebody has good reason to be consent of to being invited to a u. k and them to qualify in 2015, he acquired his 1st passport at great personal expense. but the british visa was never issued and his documents languished. i'm used for another half decade. it's a problem sized by many african athletes, even at the highest levels. so in 2022 visa delays caused kenyon sprint, etc,

not on yana to be left behind, while his teammates travelled ahead to the world athletics championships in the united states. the o africa record holder had his visa, denial reversed at the last minute and ended his 20 hour plane journey to 3 hours before his $100.00 mesa race began. hardly ideal conditions for supposing superstar office like been in these athlete or d, o 11 new with even less fortunate. despite being the only african to qualify for the contests, hip test loan, she was never grown to the visa at all. even well, huge business travelers, phase months, long backlogs, when applying for visas at western embassies with the interview process can be grueling and invasive. so actually it's like send me the recurring 2 hour bus. jenny to nairobi means he's at a disadvantage. so for us to get visas, we have to as,

as the out of the what the and we have to go tonight will be done every day. slipping our sessions on training. somehow visit for cameras. i'm not allowed inside the embassies, so we catch up with sammy, for a tea break, as he prepares to drop off his final application for a visa to spain. yeah, it has been a long day looking for visas. i have my documents here and the already, they don't know the guy behind the desk with that he's going to approve all my documents. and i've done these before going into the it was the and sometimes i didn't actually on the time, i didn't want these to get pieces. so i don't know what time remaining would. he's just dropping the documents into the building over there. i'm hoping we'll get a visa the application is now out of somebody's hands and he's able to focus on

what he loves most, preparing for his upcoming contests and motivating a new generation of sedona locals to take an interest in the support the. okay, you'll continue games meet when you go into those suite much about the forward sweets and bucks weeks with them, but then you'll come back. all right, let's see it now do it so know. nice. so uh, bands on he's one of the other thing we have, i don't think i know he was like the best junior for the last one. but this year he was meant to come with us in space. but he didn't have uh, fox sports, and i'm sure it was a hustle for visas. yeah, we have a big group. nobody on your from the same area. the all we sing me not out there. and i'm happy to be present them, you know,

big events on i'm. i also know the happy for me. um yeah. i'm so tired, man. reading this training. it was too fine. yeah. so next month, what i'm doing next month we have 2 competitions. there's a world cup in the world championship, emily, i finally divide. i don't know if this training of ours will be enough for us to go over there and compete with those guys where no one, no my demo with the boat. there's visa stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard . you've got a nipple hot when a night will be to go to night, ruby and come back, things like that. but anyway, let's try what we can. we've got to mean i'm just waiting to see if this visa can be go. i'll tell you that. let's hold on one. so it's almost time for lunch. why do we head up and drop something to eat? sure. the day of sammy's departure has finally arrived, and he's delighted by the news from the spanish embassy. today the day,

i'm so excited. i'm heading to the airport. i already have this buddy's visa, so i'm going to put this in my country in spite. but unfortunately, i don't have the u. k visa. so i will have to send my passport back home to get a visa for u. k. be something that i'm going to say, but that's hoping all, everything will go to some awarded of you as i'm, you know, for the guns they, we, those my bus boats and my bus. i will say that like back to kenya and kind of, i don't know, what are they going us down bit toner. sony is you k visa was ultimately granted. bob, his passport was mailed back late. he had to re book his flight and last important days for preparation in london. sammy came in a task out of $105.00 and failed to qualify. punch,

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