special ah, every thursday on d w. ah, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner, track hot spot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel. we go hello and a one. welcome to the 77 percent our program for you africa youth. i'm either kimani and this week we have a very special so for you coming to you from l door, it's the whole of champion this week we take a deep dive into the world of sports across the continent. here's what we have for you. we investigate how to tackle corruption in kenneth sports institutions.

marathon legend and you shall get tell the secrets and how to keep your mind on track. and in south africa, we meet the be a mixed. been as of the west of africa has produced some of the greatest names across different sporting disciplines from footballers to basket bowlers. and of course from right here, distance runners. yet the continent continues to grapple with lack of government investment, for example, or growth, mismanagement of teams. and perhaps was of all corruption is bosses to sions, one of the continent lagging behind despite the immense and natural talent. well, i spoke to a few people here in kenya to try and answer the question. when webster lucas is getting ready to lift? it looks like he is preparing for war. a battle between himself and an unimaginable 150 kilograms over his head.

this is the life of a weight lifter and webster is one of the best in kenya. he was well on his way to becoming an olympian, but things didn't go quite as planned. i played my bud. i should. i showed up in the gym. i put on there with a good, but unfortunately for example, for my, for the russian, which was supposed to be like go my link to our scholarship and the olympics of really misappropriated from those are supposed to me for a ended up not making into the political events and not finding enough points to be able to qualify for that same year. webster was locked out of the olympics. the sports ministry was riddled with corruption scandal that left the former minister facing jill time for misusing olympic funds for webster. the experience was too much forcing him to quit the national team and say good bye to his childhood dream

of really like depressing the point where like i was like yes. so the local mental strain but like i never accident before. and then i think i just decided from my goods, so i ended up fighting alone. unfortunately, to my knowledge. it's like them sigh as you see me giving spots, journalists, but not, don't tell me, webster cases not isolated. that in fact, most kenyon sports people, are amateurs, yet all around us are football use leagues, purportedly training, the future styles of africa. so way the disconnect, it's elegant, can you find a player playing football stuff like this one? and then you move on to play in professional artificial stuff. you have what it's called culture shock because you're not exposed to such facilities. and that is usually the biggest, biggest,

biggest problem. it comes to sports in general because there's no system. and if there's some semblance of a system, it's usually very adult, it's very positive. and you find that if i want to start league sports at a young age, i want to show about the future. those that do make the cut to competed international gains like the olympics face a different kind of struggle photos like these, showing stranded athletes at airports or videos like this one. showing the dilapidated accommodation of elite athletes are not uncommon. the most common complaint, however, is delayed payments or none at all. one person trying to change that is cynthia mumble, under her company's port connect africa. the former basketball player is hoping to create structures that generate profits at multiple points of the ecosystem. all for the benefit of the athlete from buying a phone,

the owner of the product, what the foreman competent, what behind the scenes, who's creating that? who's selling? but for me, who's making sure the experience for you know, the quality is good for, for, for the person who find exactly the same. the only difference and the biggest difference is that you're dealing with human beings. and that's where the value conversation comes because you must respect. you must respect the fun. everybody else is in the for the young players of the capital basketball camp. it's easy to remain optimistic. back at the gym however, webster is not so sure. while he believes, can you me one day be represented in difference post disciplines at an elite level? he doesn't think that day is coming any time. soon. at the beginning of 2022, the canon government directed all spots, federations and officials to prioritize mental health in their programs. now, while kenya continues to produce some of the best distance runners,

spots in this country has been grappling with cases of sexual harassment, mental health, and even, and unfortunately, gender based violence. well, i had the pleasure of sitting down with chill gay, arguably, the world's greatest marathon runner to see what can be done about this. i also had a chance to ask some of the cuff questions and his answer, they might surprise you. the press called him goat, which was short for the greatest of all time. and marathon runner elliott keep sugar, indeed, defies human standard. especially since the kenyan broke records in vienna, in 2019. as the 1st human in history keep choke, it broke the to our barrier at an astonishing average pace of completing one kilometer in 2 minutes. 50 seconds in 2021. he won his 2nd olympic gold medal, but that's still not enough. now it's $37.00. keep taya dreams about winning all 6

abbott world. marathon major. but who's the person behind the world famous athlete? where does he get his unbreakable mental strength from? we wanted to find out and travel to his farm near elder it an exclusive private moment with elliott keep chuck. yeah. it's a very big fun. it's very beautiful. no, you don't plan on retired simply. no, ma'am. no, but though not yet, but they both. but before bowling all over the phone, so we all will eventually here. but you won't stop running, i'm guessing maybe not competing or not. so from here. yes. how many years has it been now? it's, it's a 1000000000. i think senior, this is the 18th year when you see everything that you've accomplished, shirley, you must feel very proud of yourself. oh yes, i am proud of myself. i am proud of those who are clue herb, in, in, in my, in my surrounding. but so to my career could fear piano. yeah,

that's actually what i wanted. talk about the people who are around you and how you are able to keep a very strong mind to decide all the challenges. so is it okay for go sit in your bun. i saw some haystacks to dubia going to take you back to earth and put you in haystacks. ok, no. okay. it's good athletes in particular and do a lot of stress and pressure. they have mental challenges, which they sometimes don't talk to people about here in our country last year. 3 great athletes, unfortunately, losing their lives. how would you assess the state's own spots, men and women, their mental health, particularly in kenya right now. i think i could a distress with good sports men and women natalie's is increasing. anderson fortunate but tow it to sound other. it's a, it's a, it's a set of silo po, leaving would have been surrounded by negative people. have you ever found yourself

in that situation? where you were experiencing these high levels of stress and if so, how did you deal with it? i have been surrounded for the dinner for the last year, the nurse would been posting people for touch or lean in sport, and i'll take the sport. so now my lucky one, i've been aqua lu over globe following now that a turf i lose and i've in the file. you are clearly myself with a call which i can't live without it. half things with egg and die with those things are, what are these values that you see? you know, they're so important to you that you actually country without them the fall. you are colonial for integrity in sward. what they mean by integrity is crater to quarter. the next to mile cutting to face and had been wound in, in your life, to find you of the family to find yourself discipline, the value of consistency. so i can live without, without those values, then there is no age. so who are these people that if surrounded yourself with who

you see, you know, they're the ones who called you together when things are a bit shaky. oh, i'm surrounded by my a coach frederickson. i'm getting older fellows. i am cutting her. what's needed from him. as far as the been over and leaving this concert here. yes. can you tell me maybe some of the, the key points that her he is his taught you over the years. you've been with him a long time less that you the 1st of a boy in his trust in myself. oh, treated myself as the best one leading owens to life. those are 3 points. colutus, which he told me that when i was still young. yeah, i guess i'm trying to understand how you manage to control your emotions so well, because he said in previous interviews, a discipline is one of the ways to do that. is this the only way? because you're very tempered, i understand life. no, no in this world so, so you need to understand life and anything comes in no way in a negative, we need to understand the was they see where they to slave, then there is

a challenge. so how do you deal with some of these challenges or how have you dealt with them in the past? because, you know, at least get injured all the time physically. and they can imagine that causes a lot of pressure losing a run that doesn't feel nice, not having a good training day. maybe you're just feeling off here at those. all of them are challenges if you don't or if you don't feel of the best to in today than to maurice id. but so it's good to, to have the worst of training in that day, but, but finished a training with can give her would, can give my, i can give myself, i'll call you my man to come quasi when you buy it. awesome. the training was a little faithful, but i finished. yeah, that's wonderful. and how would you advise, you know, these young professionals, i'm sure you run with them here all the time. they must see you on the streets and want to give you a high 5 and one to get your autograph. how do you advise them to face the challenges of to day? because young people are grappling with the lots are unique to the sure that you

are really proficient. not of your professional is just your bill, your career, your respect, your formation, allison, you walk actually and respect your ethics or hope all of your property on alison. so it's somebody who's hercules. oh for laurie and a person, it's easy to manage it. so is it to instill anything on to him stealing a busty boy, but to run with him stealing within the next people is or for you. he saw e e e e. or she's a family oriented man or woman who cannot actually persuade him or her in a negative way. and i really loved the teacher coming back to this holy deal values . and i think i'm finally getting it that if you stand for something, then it's hard for people to, with their own evils in you, in a sense, when you think about your future at the moment, because you are a man who has accomplished everything in your career at this point, oh, what do you visualize, o, o denying, visualizing that so i need to my co,

our country around and country and, and all neural around and one of the for quality tall for color. if it's in the sport and still i'm still unclear to perform, to inspire the next generation and, and, and, and, and, and, and turned down people that took leave your, if you say years in your heart and transfer to your mind, i'm say thing more than you can so the roach lot that's about any other profession, doctor, we need to book a little respect are proficient. we need people to do in 1st in themselves and in 1st in their, in their families, their friends, their neighbors that saw them on. but that's worth in my it says my bucket list here. that's a very busy bucket list. so how do you plan on making us are running nation while running world? because it's one thing to be inspired by you, but it's another thing to wake up in the morning and run yourself. m turn. tell people that. so before you 2, anything you can spare your 30 minutes,

sandra. whereabouts wrangler? seeing a b. they don't have time. it's too busy the schedule. what do you say to that? there is no reduced. be cindy. so there is no responsibilities in this. what that is our responsibility, but not responsibilities. there is stamford. you just need to make time for it. yes . here and stick with a time. now that's an interview that i am sure. i will not be forgetting. and speaking of memories, i grew up riding bikes. well, maybe not quite as big as that one, but you know what i mean? and it was sort of all play time. often we came back home, so dusty and we punctured tires. but trust me, maneuvers weren't nowhere close to what these young south africans are up to. they're part of a growing be a mix culture that was born in. so little showcasing a very cool and unique cycling style pinning like the big one. and so wait till racing waving and spinning is not just the sports for more to the usual way to

taking the form to a new level onto their own custom me bikes. when we can some, it's a way to write as a taking over the street. the township is home to a thriving biking culture. the king discipline is painting and mac quickly. a mckesson is unrivalled of the people. when i spend my bicycle at like getting into a tron, there is a demon inside me and i change from being my quick way to my case. 4 years ago, most cash with the fast double, like an extra long be a mixed bike, with plastic bottles around the black wheels. it's perfectly seeming and a lot of work with an american lifestyle. that's why i called my case choice because he might be the one who came to interesting us to see where was side by costs pinning motorsports that involved

driving cars. a speed in circles to perform stamps and winning originated in the 1980 the process. so tough because gangs to culture young men from the township t expensive cars in well of how about if the high to successful, the saucy was hurried back home until the tires. but since then, winning has evolved into a popular so classic and moral support. and the youth is really pick up on this equally important to the ceiling skewed other nooks of the bikes, which a custom builds and pinged to the brit custom made bicycles mortified me. one for food chains and pegs however, come with a price dog and a lot of sacrifice. we would fix other people's bikes and charge them. but we also hooking up events, mixing up with other cyclists and helping each other. because with parents, it's tough. they don't give you money, just a bike, because for them this is no korea buckle. mclaughlin gets his by clarity for special event to cast. been as having invited him for

a joint spin on the road. they have heard of mccook with double bike and got to meet up and been together. lady dally races, her car into a street corner and stuff. the show moments later, mclaughlin joined her in a dare devil. the 2 spinners looking to host events together, but wants to check out fast how people on the street like this on the calendar in the car. you know what i mean? and we do a lot more damage than the bad, bad, like he brings on the so you had to people, really, whatever the rent was that was the main thing was, was double likes spread all of us away to, and neighboring townships for him and others, the bike has become an instrument to express their freedom and creativity and leave

the foundation for the new bikes of culture. his wife will mean the wild to quickly he lost his parents a few years ago and stopped going to school. he now stays with these on. when i started with my mother was very supportive. before she passed away, she would have been proud of me because i have an impact in the spinning. and i'm also teaching others how to spin. you know, lots of people following me. so my mother would have been very proud of work with passion is not without, it has a phase of him having to with the injured when they collided with passing cars, some have even died. make this what's more safe, the right, as also me up a venue without cars and trucks. they look a part of me really wants to try that, but perhaps not before. sand boarding now. sand boarding is this extreme sports, which is very similar to snowboarding, actually, it involves writing across or down a sand dune. and what better place to try that than only be not here. perhaps one

of the world's largest sun deals in the media. i think, yeah. oh, it's fun, it's fast, it's messy. sand boarding is growing in popularity and the sport is about to step into the shoes of its big brothers surfing and snowboarding. championships like this one, held an acre peru in 2019. bring together pros and fans from around the world. but san boarding also has a home in africa, maybe as a smoke, a month is a prime location for the adrenaline field sport. and some locals want to make swapped a sand boarding paradise with some of the world's biggest sand is located here. sand boarding has become a source of income for many, like blanket po for 1st was behind it. but then eventually after

day it gets easy blank or takes tourists up the sand dunes on most days, telling them to hang in there. but walking a 150 meters in height is a strenuous form of exercise. never mind that under the hot namibian sun, you still have to wear winter boots and carry heavy snow both to enjoy your moment of glory. and they are no alternatives. blanco and his crew have to use winter sports gear from europe to fit their purpose. for blanco's friend, robin nelly is improvising a ramp, and before each right, he also make sure the boards all up to scratch literally. it turns out waxing, is extremely important for a smooth ride. we can always before dried, make sure we apply some cobra x polish like that on before it dries some sand on it works of douglas to me again. works on vector few years ago,

san boarding was considered a serious sport. there was even a south african league holding regular contests in these very dooms. the organization, however collapsed, and st boarding for the most part, became only a tourist attraction and last year wasn't exactly grateful business, either because of coven 19 restrictions, but revenue li keeps coming back in voting room and me and my mom was here. we set up his meals and boarding team and also, you know, we bring tours out here, instruct them on how to read the assembly. we got the best of both worlds. we got the deal and right hand is right across the highway. we've got the ocean. so freeman, free spring, ravenel and his friends are looking forward to teaching many future visitors. how to move about on a board, and who knows? maybe one day there will be another championship in these beautiful do. let's

bring you back in kenya, where we meet a man like no other. are you a lou, lou muscle trains, cox to fight yet you heard that right? cock fighting is actually a big part of a culture cane western kenya. but the traditional sport is losing popularity as modernization takes over aspects of rural african life. massapequa is however, determined to keep the old spot alive, training his champions with the help of his children. whom am ready for a fight. are you a lu? mosacco is the king of cock fighting. he's famous in his home reaching coming to a county in western kenya. but before he heads to the ring, a youth texas sheree to see if it's working cock fighting here is nothing without this instrument shrinking in the background. 6 cock fighting is embedded in the culture of kenneth new york community. the sport has been passed down from one generation to the next. and i use a lulu once his children to keep his legacy alive. drug when my kids grew out like

them to be proud of the coach and to know that it's paid for the education. they should not just be seeing news on to your read on newspapers about their dog. they should know the what part of the culture from the what go on the actively but is it better they used to sing and dance? just like you've seen this kid? still all of them from the young to the old world struggle quite low. like any family business, every one has a role to play. the young girls entertain spectators while the older boys take care of the cockles and daughter. mildred malesky regales every one with the rosella. i started playing with him when i was so young, i can't even remember my age, but my mom was still alive. at that time we were playing with him. we were go to most of the functions that he would train me, how to play. so that when we have something like this with was ala, he would tell me, this is how we blow it. so i started getting the skills bit by bitch, been progressive, and right now i know how to play several other instruments and i'm so happy.

but as soon as the match starts, the only thing that matters is the playing field. a little is the referees keep close eye on the co and sometimes that's in a thing thought, getting to harry for i lou, this is more than entertainment. it's how he earns with living every time i see my dad stayed cockfighting matches, i feel so happy because it means that we are able to go to school, eat our personal needs and met at home. and every activity that we do is from him like her sibling mode, right? know, well, what her father's work has done for the family. she wishes the cockfighting culture was appreciated. more like many other traditions. is that risk of extinction? i pray that as the days go by, he will get someone who can promote him, put him up there and not below.

cock fighting has a bad rap among animal rights activists. and for good reason. but a lou doesn't want his animals to get hurt. after a few minutes of plucking beaks and a few last feathers, one of the couple simply walked away. i knew hoist the champion into the air. he might be the only one of his kind, but he's hopeful the tradition will live on through future generations. and that's all we have for you today. do let us know what you think. remember, you can always get in touch with us, buy a facebook, instagram or even youtube. we want to get the conversation going on top. it's an important to you. thank you so much for watching. i'm here with you money coming to you from this great town of el dorado and we'll leave you now with the music in a

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