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worldwide in such an one. great timing question is very hard to say very difficult to find out about simon story info. mike runs the this is one of kenya's best kayak is in training. you 545, that'll be that microphone getting into the olympics and this slide them. so that's a big the bus will happening. championships held almost exclusively in europe for africans like sammy missouri. that can be an obstacle for us to go out and participate in any events within the country. we have to get lots of documents submitting all those documents. it's not that 100 percent likely. i went to get

some visas. so there is someone behind this somewhere who have to be side of jacob and 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. uh, we held that obligation to ship everyone about what did they quote? so these are big sport, 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 that. i've been sort out and i use it for my training. 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 parents and impacts. he's keenly aware of the resource gap between the gear he has and what's available in europe. most of the other the lived in france and they have easy access on kayaks in full. 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 of club and i said i would, i had some friends who helped me for me. i do enjoy every minute when i'm in the city, but my main thing, i think maybe in winning that with these by a lot of people, i'm going to see packing going and coming a big boat in slowing. i'm kind of getting involved,

completing the costs of hunting gates and the fastest time possible. green gates across dwelling moving down stream. rate gates must be crossed in an upstream direction. states in europe, often training in the office of disease without the official with is and 5 o'clock gates. but here on this, the gonna semi and his friends make do with what they have in kenya. the as of, if you meant it for us to such as we have the most chatted us compared to other countries. this loan, good, uh, so important that is uh you have to maneuver that on the uh, green pools uh, reviews, thing and cable. then you have like both types, so we painted them green and red. just to identify the ups. do you mind adults get? yeah, that's our own we own house to do our level as if

disposing and equipment related obstacles wasn't enough. the biggest challenge lies ahead for sammy guessing baez's in the capital 9 rugby we still have, i would like 1010 days before we fly out of our competition. uh for the couple of days we, we've not been saying we've been to night, it'll be almost for like 3 or 4 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, how this my, on my, on my face, i like what, uh and this is almost like going. but the stress of his visa sagas soon returns at home piles of documents are still waiting to be submitted to the spanish and purchased embassies. a complicated process yet for us to go out and

participate in an event. we developed country, we have to get lots of documents. he's like passports because invitations late does our bank statements clean, clean okay. record sick mental 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 the duties from home. you went up kind that i would we yeah. if you go out there, you know what, 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 sports been done back on . so if i don't get a chance these the on the, on these events, and i'll have to wait for another like 4 or 5 years to train 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 or in 2022 visa delays caused canyon 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 recruit 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 and renew 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. johnny to nairobi means he's at a disadvantage. so for us to get visas, we have to this is 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 m s. c. and sometimes i didn't actually on the time, i didn't want these to get resist. so i don't know what i'm remaining with. he's just dropping these documents into the building over there. i'm hoping we'll get into the the the application is now out of sammy's hands. and he's able to focus on what he loves most, preparing for his upcoming contests and most advising a new generation of sedona locals to take an interest in this for the. okay, you'll continue games meet when you go into those sweet about forward sweets and bucks week's window, but then you come back. all right, let's see it now do it so no nice

so uh, bends 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 spain. 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 said email i was training. it was to find the boat next month. what i'm doing next month. we have 2 competitions. there's a world cup in the world championship. similarly, 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 when no one with a boat,

there's visa stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard to go when and they told me 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 and 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 it in my country in spite. but unfortunately, i don't have the u. k visa. so i will have to send my passport, but hope to get a visa for you. k. it'd be something that i'm going to say bucks, that's hoping all, everything will go to some awarded all v, as i'm, you know,

for the guns they, we, those, my bus boats on my bus. i will set it like back to kenya. and kind of, i don't know where the, the going to stump beds. toner, sunny's. u. k. visa was ultimately granted. bob, his passport was mailed back late. he had to re book his flight and lost imposing days for preparation in london. sammy came in a task out of $105.00 and failed to qualify funds. he tells us his dream of becoming the 1st pallet to be present. can you see a lympics still lives on the . 2 the

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