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a foreign country was. fast tracked it isn't a war or my became congolese to realize my dream of making the olympics and fighting for a medal in tokyo in 2021. year now also changed her religion so born and raised in china it took years until she was able to become a german. proved to be a decisive reinforcement for germany's olympic table tennis team which with her in its ranks celebrated an unprecedented success. one silver at the rio olympics which came as a surprise. i'm so happy. it's not unusual for people to change nationality but in the world of sports it's become common practice and also a business so who profits who are the winners from the losers.

with 2 very different changing stories. is an expert in this field the dissertation for sports science degree was about athletes who don't in new national jersey although the international judo association is a supporter of rapid naturalisation wherever they hail from judoka see themselves as a global family where everyone helps each other so much better. i applied to the cap verde islands and morocco to all i also had an offer from the rishis they all welcomed my application. ended up choosing the democratic republic of congo. and. if you google democratic republic of congo and go to news 90 percent of the stories are really negative and as i otherwise had no idea about the country that was an additional factor that had me worried. all you read about is the corruption

all the mass graves being constantly. discovered and child labor. c. has huge deposits of rare minerals that make their way into the smartphones we use every day it has also been cursed by never ending conflict and civil war despite the introduction of un peacekeepers claimed gynaecologist denis mukwege summed up the situation when accepting the 2018 nobel peace prize. it. must suck to. did this is. that haunting history did not put off my self made the trip to what remains one of the poorest and most violent places in the world. sure i was scared i was going to a far away country where people live in completely different conditions

a country i knew nothing about switching nationality is quite prevalent in sports especially in table tennis. spent 2 years on china's national team before being dropped like other chinese players shun show now received lucrative offers from abroad she moved to a german club which encouraged her to also take up citizenship. when the manager wanted to apply on my behalf but i said no i wanted to retain my chinese passport but i gave it a lot of thought the manager said that if i had a german possible so i could play another 10 years for the club and that's obviously an incentive for shaan shown i had by this point already been living in europe for 7 years winning the champions league and 2 german singles titles she also became friends with kids the long and the multiple german and european champion was eager to help her budding and maid of honor and i don't understand

what if i was asked a few times by senior officials what i made. as a player. i said that she could be a big asset for the german team and that i would definitely welcome such a move in front of the course and other players nationality is subject to a confusing array of regulations for world championships show and i wouldn't be eligible to compete for another 9 years but the olympics were open to her immediately and. the manager if i fancied playing for germany and that. i never thought i'd get that kind of chance. i said ok let's try it and i really did make it. amazing. i'm so happy. that. shaun show now became german in 20124 years later the rio olympics the german team with her in it's made it to the finals where they sensationally claimed silver. with them the most because i'm so grateful to germany

i would otherwise never have been able to compete at the end in pics it was making the switch from china to germany that gave me the chance germany expressed its gratitude to shine show now with the country's highest sporting distinction the silver laurel leaf and german table tennis also won of course that's why i'm not with other non naturalized germans and if it's the society we honestly would not have won a medal in rio and of course this means funding for the judo association and grounds being youth programs. for a lot of countries sports authority is changing nationality is evidently an investment in the future. while there are always 2 sides sure i have the option of living my dream and going to the olympics but there's no country in the world that would go to the trouble of issuing a passport in this case for a german if it did not stand to gain. muscle from poppy. guns i've got

a new passport. for just a few months it was handed over to. government officials but the president of the congolese judo association since then she's been competing for the seat she was before i was touched because everyone was saying it's impossible she's white neither of her parents are from congo so i didn't know how i was supposed to make her congolese what i said was it's a sports nationality which no one understood when it was done i felt very emotional . she. has since gone on to win 2 world cup of gold at the african championships for her new countries judo association fast tracking her citizenship application turned out to be very profitable. never been a gold medal for congo before and it was marie who gave it to us. that gold

medal also meant money for the association is there any benefit for locally born. in fact the team for the tokyo is comprised soley of athletes who like. german table tennis the practice of recruiting chinese players goes back decades. to see coming wasn't even mine generations we had 3 women in the national team just arrived in germany. where they were competing for places in the european and world championship squads which wasn't good news for everyone and that is the i of course it impedes our own news programs why should i bother to develop 10 in cooley good players virus government training program only to see those places taken by others that's a victory. but germany is not the only country naturalizing table tennis players from china it's a global phenomenon or. table tennis at the olympics could arguably be called

a chinese championship a quarter of male and female players at the rio games were born in china. they competed for over a 3rd of all nations represented including the u.s. turkey canada qatar brazil and china itself of course. as the number one sport table tennis enjoys world class backing in china you know. look at the chinese women's team 40 players in total only 5 of them will go to the major tournament the other $35.00 players are just kind of training partners. and a fair number of them will switch to another country as a result table tennis is the world's leading sport when it comes to naturalized players in rio they comprised 31 percent of entrants while the figure for judo was 11 percent. is one of the various countries

using financial incentives to attract new recruits the success of foreign born athletes suddenly representing turkey has also been controversial. the african national ethics chief responded the present situation is wrong what we have is a wholesale market for african talent open to the highest bidder the world governing body has now amended the rules to prevent athletes switching. overnight. is an olympic winning javelin thrower and an official athlete representative. world athletics the old i really tighten things up creating new stipulations for both athletes and associations what i know as an athlete representative is that switching your country or your jersey is not always the same we have refugee stories where young athletes have arrived in a new country due to their personal plight. and once they're of course they can't

wait to take their passion even up to the international level. and that's completely understandable. 20136 years later she became german and is now considered a major medal contender. also left as a refugee becoming a dutch citizen and a world beating middle and long distance runner but some athletes end up stateless . had to leave the war torn democratic republic of congo as a young orphan but later competed at the rio olympics in the refugee team. at the tokyo games. to represent the same country that other top judoka have been forced to flee from on the other hand the d.l.c. team has won some new fans. i'm afraid. that in an impish i'll be cheering on

congo in the olympics. as so often sports is not a level playing field this outlet got a new passport in no time while this one had to wait and overcome a series of hurdles. that us is also on it's not felt i could have competed for longer if i'd had a german possible tele out. but i had to wait 8 years to get it. and by then i'd gotten older i thought. then that today and in turkey it takes you just one or 2 years to get the passports in my opinion the rules around fan. the international olympic committee could even things up but the world's biggest sports organization has refused putting the ball in the court of the national associations switching nationalities in the sports world is a bit like table tennis the seemingly endless back and forth and for the time being

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