ah, in 45 minutes, dw, so you want to know what makes the german here just in the german love and banning thing away. but i'm not even know how to work my own car and everyone with later holes in every day. furth getting. are you ready to meet the german and join me, rachel stuart on d. w. 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 home 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 kenyon, sports institutions,

marathon legend and you can choke it tells us the secret on how to keep your mind on track. and in south africa, we meet the be a mac spinners 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 forces to sions. what is 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 his preparing for war. a battle between himself and an unimaginable 100 kilograms

over his head. this is the life of a weightlifter 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 did make bugs i should. i showed up in the gym. i put all dabbled like good, but unfortunately examples will make the duration, which was supposed to be like go my link to the scholarship into the olympics of william is appropriate in the form that was supposed to me for a ended up not making into the political event and not finding enough points to be able to qualify 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 depressing the points where like i was like yes. so the local mental strain but like i've never accident before. and based on that, i think i just decided on my goods. so i ended up fighting alone. and unfortunately, to my knowledge, it's like them. it's in sports journalists, but not don't tell me. webster's case is not isolated. that in fact, most kenyon sports people, are amateurs. here turn around us of football use leagues, purportedly training, the future styles of africa. so ways a disconnect. it's only been can you find a player playing when 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 which comes to sports in general because there's no system. and if there's some semblance of our system, it's really very adult. it's very positive. and you find that if i want to start laying sports with a young age, i want to show about the future. those the do make the cut to computers, international games like the olympic 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 post connect africa. the former basketball player is hoping to create structures, the generate profit at multiple points of the ecosystem. all for the benefit of the athlete from buying a phone,

the phone is the product. what the foreman competent? what behind the scenes, who's creating? who's selling that form? who's making sure the experience for, you know, the quality is good for, for, for the person who find the exactly the same. the only difference and the biggest differences like you're dealing with human being. and that's where the value can proficient. because you must respect, you must respect the fun. everybody else is in between 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 in me one day be represented indifference sports 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,

sports 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 guy, 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 ciocca 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 edge 37. keep julia dreams about winning all 6

abbot world. marathon major. but who's the person behind the world famous athlete? where does he get an unbreakable mental strength from? we wanted to find out and travel to his farm near elder it an exclusive private moment with elliot keep chug. yes. it's a very big form. it's very beautiful. you don't plan on retain simply. no, no, but though not yet for both, but for a bowling all over the phone. so we all will eventually here. but you wouldn'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 tony, as this is the 18th year when you see everything that you've accomplished, surely you must feel very proud of yourself. oh, so i'm proud of myself. i am proud of those who are kalu herb in, in, in, in my, my surrounding the tow tomorrow collier could tear piano. yeah,

that's actually what i wanted to talk about the people who are around you and how you are able to keep a very strong mind despite all the challenges. so is it okay for go sit in your been, i saw some haystacks to debbie are going to take you back to us and put you in history . oh can of 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 of sports men and women, their mental health, particularly in kenya right now. i think i could a distress with good sportsmen on whom i natalie's is increasing. anderson fortunate but tow it to san diego. it's a, it's a, it's a sat, a silo po, leaving would have been surrounded by

a 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 4th 18 year for the last year. the nurse would been mostly people put touch olean 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. i hope things are they can 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 kalu for integrity in sward. what i mean by integrity is crater to quarter, the next to mile, carrier to face, and had been wound in, in your life, to find you of the family to failure of self discipline. the failure of consistency . so i can live without, without those values. then there is no age. so who are these people that you've

surrounded yourself with? will you see you know that the ones who called you together when things are a bit shaky? oh, i'm surrounded by my a coach, but jackson. i'm getting older fellows. i am cutting her what's needed from him as far as the been know, leaving his cancer. yeah, 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. yes. that you the 1st of a boy in his trust and myself o 2 to myself as the best to one leading openness to life. those are 3 points. colutus which he told me when, 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 you need to understand life and anything comes in no way in a negative, we need to understand who was they see where they to slave, then there's

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 any. but so it's good to, to have the worst of training in dante but, but finished a training with good if would, can give my i can give myself, i'll call you my man to come quasi. when you buy it. i said the training was a little painful, 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 you new to the sure that you are really proficient?

not of your professional is just in your bill. you are korea who respect your publish medicine. you walk actually and respect your ethics, or pope or, or, or view approach nelson. so it's somebody who's kelley, oh for laurie under parson, 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 opinion? i got a proposal for you. he saw e or she's a family oriented manor, homer. you cannot actually persuade him or her in a negative way. and i really love the teacher coming back to this whole idea of values. and i think i'm finally getting it that if you stand for something, then it's hard for people to put 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, 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 full color tall for color. oh, you can see it in the sport, and still am sill unclipped of her form to inspire to next generation and, and, and, and, and, and tell diane people that took leave you'll, if you say years in your heart and transfer to your mind and say thing more than you can. so the roach lot that's about any other profession doctor. we need to book a little respect proficient we need people to, to in 1st in them self son 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 at 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 to anything you can spare your 30 minutes. sandra.

whereabouts wrangler? seeing the they don't have time. it's too busy the schedule. what do you say to that? there is no reduce per cindy. so there is no responsibility in this work. that is our responsibility, but not responsibilities. that is standpoint. you just need to make time for it. yes. here and stick with the 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 was 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 thinning. let the big one, it's a way to racing waving and spinning is not just the sports for more to the usual

way to taking the ports to a new level onto their own custom made bikes. when we can come, it's a way to write as a taking over the st. the township is home to a thriving biking culture. the king discipline is pending, and my quickly a my cache is unrivalled of the. when i spend my bicycle, it's like getting into a trance. there is a demon inside me and i change from being my quick way to my cash. 4 years ago. my cash is the fast double life. an extra long liam expired with plastic bottles around the bluff wheels. it's perfectly seeming and a lot of quick, quick pain and admiration. i'll be like india in my in my kitchen. ready because he might be, the team of one came interesting to see where it wasn't side by cost painting. i motorsports that's involved driving cars,

a speed in circles to perform stamps and finish originated in the $1080.00, the process so tough because gangs to culture young men from the township would expensive cars in well, of above. if the high school successful, the saucy was hurried back home until the tires, but since then winning has evolved into a popular so subsequent mortal sport. and the youth is ready to pick up on this equally important to the spinning skills. other looks of the bike which a custom build and pinged to the custom made bicycle modified me one for food chains and pegs. however, come with a price dug 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 bike lady for special

event to cause peanuts have invited him for a joint been on the road. they have heard of a quick with double bike and got a trick to meet up and spin together. lady dully racing her car into a street corner and stuff. the show moments later, mclaughlin joined 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 can the holiday in the con, you know what i mean? and we do a lot more time. it's than the bad, bad, like he brings on the so you had to people really, whatever you it was that was amazing. amazing. yeah. well, i was double likes spread all of us a way 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. he was old mean the walls to quickly he lost his parents a few years ago and stopped going to school. he now stays with his on. when i tell 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 are following me. so my mother would have been very proud of hulu. sport o'clock was passion too, is not without. it hasn't friends of him have been seriously injured when they collided with passing cars. so have even died from weakness. portsmouth, faith. the writers also meet up at a venue without cause and traffic. look, a part of me really wants to try that, but perhaps not before. sand boarding now, sand boarding is, is extreme sports, which is very similar to snowboarding. actually, it involves riding across or down a sand dune. and what better place to try that then?

or maybe not here, perhaps one of the world's largest sunday in the media. i think. yeah. i, 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 hope in africa maybe as a smoke and is a prime location for the adrenaline field sport. and some locals want to make swap of a sand boarding paradise with some of the world's biggest sand dunes located here. san boarding has become a source of income for many like blank or for the 1st rob, mr. hodges. but then eventually after there it gets easier 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 them. blanco's friend ravin nelly, is improvising a rep. 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 got to always before a dried, make sure we apply some cobra x polish, like that on before it dries some sand on it. and works of

douglas meg works on vector few years ago. sand boating was considered a serious sport. there was even a south african league holding regular contests in these very dooms. the organization, however collapsed and san boarding for the most part became only a tourist attraction and last year wasn't exactly grateful business either because of cove at 19 restrictions, but revenue only keeps coming back in boarding road. and near my home was here we set up is mills and boarding team and also, you know, we bring tourist out here. instruct him on how to write this and we got the best of both worlds. we gotta do and right hand just right across the highway. we've got the ocean. so freeman, free spirit, robin nelly, 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 lulu muscle trains, cox to fight? yet you heard that right? cock fighting is actually a big part of a culture. hain 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, the man ready for a fight. a you've a loo, mosacco. if the king of cock fighting, he's famous in his home reaching, coming, a county in whisk and kenya. but before he heads to the ring, a youth checks his 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 grow old 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 dad on, on. they should know the what part of the culture from the what go on the actively participated. they used to sing and dance, just like you've seen this kids doing all of them from the young to the old world to smuggle quite a lot 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 molded malesky regaled 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 and he would train me how to play. so that when we have something like this, we 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 referee. keep close eye on the potto, and sometimes that's in a thing thought getting to harry for lou lou, this is more than entertainment is 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 siblings, mildred knows full well what her father's work has done for the family. she wishes the cockfighting culture was appreciated. more like many other traditions is at risk of extinction. i pray that as the days go by, he will get some one who can promote him. put him up there and not below

the cock, fighting as a bad rap among animal rights activists. and for good reason, but eleanor doesn't want his animals to get hurt. after a few minutes of clacking beaks and a few last feathers, one of the cockles simply walks away. eleanor 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 by 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 edith. you money coming to you from this great town of el dorado, and we'll leave you now with the music in a ridge

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