things up next sunday material he wants to be the 1st canyon kayak in the olympics. sports life takes a look at his frustrating struggle to obtain a visa so he can can pace warranty w. com. jared reading, building. thank you for watching. have a great day. the com have a page of this out to the highlights you every week in your inbox, subscribe. now dw, still on fix, on the inside. every day, the world wide web for free comes

over. well, we can take the different w calling world unpack pulse of your info is and all the input your w story. now on to the, this is one of kenya's best kayak is in training. if i would, if i would be that like the 1st 10 to the following to this level i have. so that's a big box. well, it's happening championships. i held almost exclusively in europe for africans like sammy missouri. that can be an obstacle for us to go out and participate in an events within the country. we have to get lots of documents submitting all those documents. it's not that high,

the best st. likely i went to get to business. so there is someone behind this somewhere who have to be side of jacob and increments and decided with that we have going to go out on the few natural landscapes of basis use it for slalom kind of training. then central can use to gone over the god just sent me to recruit up just steps from its banks. of this region was chosen to host the applicant championships will slalom kayaking in 2015, he began to see the roses with fresh eyes. i used to see him fed somewhat to somebody taking the back home and i was young. pop the we have that obligation to ship everyone about 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 kayak bottle, double blade on one blade, good broken, that's a level uh stick. i decided to improvise profits around it and i use it for my training. so improvisation is key. as somebody is preparing to take part in the canoe slot and world cup and spain and the bull 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 lived in france and they 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 because 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 training really hard. he's a tough athlete now about the 1st steps on the what was the were not so easy when i joined the club this level 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 very well, my main thing like i told him, maybe in winning now with these way up to other 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. oscillates in europe, often training into facilities with artificial rivers and fiberglass gates. but here on this, the gone to semi and his friends make do with what they have in kenya, the as of equipment and infrastructure. we have the most charted us compared to other countries. this loan, good. uh, so important on that is uh you have to maneuver that on the uh, being 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 go see get yeah. that's our own . we own house to do a level for see if as this disposing and equipment related,

obstacles went enough. the biggest tenants lies ahead for sammy guessing. visa is in the capital 9 rugby. we seem to have around like 1010 days before we fly. out for a form of edition. uh for the couple of days that we've not been saying 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 trading almost like the building. but the space 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 yet for us to go out and

participate in an event in the country. we have to get lots of documents is uh like passports, because invitations latest our bank statements uh, premium. okay. uh they quote 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 the duties from home. you want to 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 for the time back home. 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 of to being invited to a u k olympic qualifying 2015, he acquired his 1st passport at great personal expense. but the bridge is 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 is caused 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. first, supposing, superstar office like been in these athlete or d o m, i knew were even less fortunate despite being the only african to qualify for the

contests hep, tesla. and 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 semi 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. and we have to go tonight will be done every day. skipping 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 these before going into the m s. c. and sometimes i didn't actually own the time. i didn't monday's to get resist. so i don't know what time remaining would be. dropping the documents into the building over there. i'm hoping we'll get the 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. i'm most advising in newton ration of savannah locals to take an interest in this for the, for the. okay, you'll continue games to 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. do it so know. 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 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 say, you know, from the same area. the always sing me not on this 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, reading this training, it was to find the boat next month. what i'll do next month we have 2 competitions as 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 window which know my demo with a boat,

this visa stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard 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 that. let's hold on one. so it's almost time for lunch. why do we head up and drop something to eat? so 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 you. k. it'd be something they're going to say bucks does, hoping all, everything will go through some of what it will be as i'm you know,

when it comes to the with my buckboard on my bus, i will set it like back to kenya and kind of, i don't know where the, the going us down bit toner, sunny's u. 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 funds. he tells us his dream of becoming the 1st pallet to represent kenya. the lympics still lives on the books. you will tell you the story.

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