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a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed. if the carrier is subscribe to the subscribe to plan, it's a the, this is one of kenya's best kayak isn't training. if i would, if i leave it like the 1st thing on to me olympics, this let them go. yeah. so that's a beacon lots well it's happening championships. i held almost exclusively in europe for africans like send me 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 that meeting all those documents is not a 100 percent. like we are going to get to be this. so there is someone behind this

somewhere will have to be side of jacob and different names and decide whether you're going to go out or not the few natural landscapes of basis use it for slalom kind of training. then central can use to gone over the uh, the cemetery grew up just steps from its banks of days. region was chosen to host the african championships, full slalom kayaking. in 2015, he began to see the waters with fresh eyes. i used to see him fed somewhat to from that he was taking it back home when i was young, after we had that obligation to ship everyone about what did they quote? so there's a big sport. this big bows inspired sammy and he started to become a kayak pioneer and kenya with minimal equipment. so guys,

i'm ready for team today. so that's my head minutes. my jacket and my face caught my paddle, used to be a kayak puddle, double bled on one blade. good broken. that's a bubble uh stick. i decided to improvise, but i figured it out and i use it for my training. so improvisation is key. as somebody is preparing to take part in the canoe, sloan and world cup in spain and the world championships in london, which double as the qualifies for the powers 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 lead in front of the have easy access on kayaks in full thank you friends 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 version,

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 and few weeks we have been trading really 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 7 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 i'm doing. my main thing i told him, i think maybe in winning that with these by a few of the people and i just want to see the packing growing and becoming a big boat in slowing them. kayaking involves 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. oscillates in europe, often training into the facilities without the official with is and 5 o'clock gates . but here on this, the gone to semi and his friends make do with what they have in kenya. the as of, if you mean it, infrastructure is 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 falls uh, reviews being and cable. they do have like both types. so we painted them green and red just to identify the upstream on the dose. yes. yeah. that's our own we own house to do a level for see if as this disposing and the equipment related obstacles when to

now, the biggest tenants lies ahead for sammy guessing baez's in the capital 9 rugby we seem to have around like 1010 days before we fly out for our form of edition. uh for the couple of days we, we've not been saying uh we've been to night will be almost for like 3 or 4 days before going for 2 different offices. uh, looking for a visa and all that. but yesterday and today 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 seem to be tons at home. piles of documents are still waiting to be submitted to the spanish and push embassies. a complicated process. yeah, for us to go out and participate in any event we developed country, we have to get lots of documents these uh like passports. because in addition,

slater's our bank statements, uh, the premium, okay. uh, they called statements on 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 oddities from me when i kind that i would we yeah. if you go out there you're not like going and thing definitely. and let's, it doesn't feel comfortable for you. yes. all those kind of questions and you're just going for support then turned back on. so if i don't get a chance the on the on these events, and i'll have to wait for another like for 5 years to say more and wait for like the nic calling because somebody has good reason to be consent off to

being invited to the u. k and them to qualify and 2015. he acquired his 1st passport at great personal expense. but the british visa was never issued and his documents languished on used for another half decade. it's a problem sized by many african athletes, even at the highest levels in 2022 visa, today's course canyon spencer funding. 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 do you owe him a new way even less fortunate despite being the only african to qualify for the contests hip test alone. she was never grown to the visa at all. even well,

huge business travelers, face months, long backlogs, when applying for visas at western embassies with the interview process can be grueling and invasive. so actually it's like semi the recurring 2 hour bus done a to nairobi means he's at a disadvantage. so for us to get visas, we have to stay out on the water 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 they propose 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 this before going into the m s. c,

and sometimes i didn't actually own the time. i didn't mondays to get visas, so i don't know what time remaining with is just dropping the documents into the building over there. i'm hoping we'll get a visa 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 motivating a new generation of sedona locals to take an interest in this for the, for the. okay, you'll continue getting speech 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 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 spain. but he didn't have uh, fox sports and to see why 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. and 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 championships, 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. this window competing with the boat. there's visa stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard to go when and they told

me to go to my ruby and come back, things like that. but anyway, let's try what we can. we're gonna do. i'm just waiting to see if this visa hope can be go and tell you what's hold on. 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. it's way. but unfortunately, i don't have the u. k visa. so i will have to sit in my passport but hope to get a visa for you. k. it'd be something you're going to say, but that's hoping all everything will go through some awarded of you as i'm, you know, for the guns, even though my buckboard on my bus. i will set it like back to kenya,

and i'm kind of, i don't know where the, the goodness doesn't fit toner. sammy is you. k visa was ultimately granted spots. 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 at the olympics still lives on the . 2 the fold shape in times of war by lineage cosca by some design in

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