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tv   Sports Life  Deutsche Welle  April 8, 2023 9:15am-9:30am CEST

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the israel has tightened security and cold on reserve it as violence in the region escalade. and you're up to date up next on the w is sports life, which profile is one of the world's best skateboarders. she's just 15 years old and we're all set to go beyond the citizenship and then we're all in as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to you. whatever it takes, policemen follow with w. fire made for mines. imagine how many portion of lunch or throw it out in the
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world, climate change. if you think off the story, this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to go. i'm going all with oh, oh oh oh i i still, i used to be able to do it with my family, my hands, my little sister's escape order to. that was really cool then. and now i see
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skateboarding is simply a sport in which there are no rules. why and you're kind of free and good by demons of his fries. i'm can lily's to fuzzy as became the youngest sports woman in german olympic history to make the national team a natural born border. genius or from from yahoo road lilies 15 now and has already been in the squad since 2019. all this kara, this. oh gosh, and by oh yeah, she was at the tokyo games and his wife out there among the world's best buy in boca soon, but in fallen commons are at 1st it was primarily about the fun rather than competing slight amazon. i started getting better and better at android and when i became german champion there was no beating me best in germany. second at the european championships, answered at the world championships, all while still in her teens. and now she's looking forward to her next olympics. although there's 1st, the minor matter of securing qualification,
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the goal is to conduct the the biggest contest is the world championship in real button view. also because it's the most important meets when it comes to qualifying for perio public appearance event through a police. ah, up out of the subway and straight on to her board to the skate park, lily has joined other german and lim pick hopefuls for training in sweden. why here in my more unlike in germany, there's a range of skate parks with conditions similar to those international meet lily's father accompanied her on the journey north, but he's now gone back home. that's a new situation for her. done at the owner. my dad's not having my parents here means i have to find things that for myself, for me there was
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a man often was there's a lot more than i had to keep in mind tank and that i might forget. and there's nobody to remind me of things or say, carry my backpack for me. i had to take care of everything myself. alas, i line and manage. and was this his only happened once before he was still lilies got used to going abroad for training or competitions. although she is still a minor over her, and she's far from the only one in the skateboarding seen, the 2020 olympic champ from japan was just 13. when she one goes. germany's head coach, yoga and hormone is her name lily. for years, he used to be a pro border and like lily lives in berlin, which is where he coaches this exceptional talent together with her dad oliver than orleans dar. this is of you in phone. when all is not there,
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it's definitely different than it is. she has a slightly different mindset of noses. i guess she feels more relax between local it's just her an asset that she's a bit more liberated from those family structures gone speaking from you and talk to her and being a deed of for hash and miss. i heard months later, sides, i'm going for an hour, but feel scared and don't know whether to commit this month for a few hours of ins. and that is actually crucial here. you're really trying to get up here, which is why you're changing your twist for in as to shown that but jumping really high here, went in to right in the right, the spring rush this the semester, the concern for another we come in on monday. you but i did at least make it this file number for your right. the for from of the coach knows the next couple of years will be pivotal. oh yeah. says missing of braxton is got the trick. this luxury has grown up a bit and is gradually getting more strength of info for escaping has changed since
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we were in tokyo on 2nd i'll any i hear she's made huge leaps forward since then. and there's a lot more to complicated, marcia. she'll have more hot in her ears and more pace to husky ian boat years with maria green, billionaires and saudi, but did with mega finished her. her 2020. so skateboarding make it said name pick debut in tokyo, lily narrowly missed out on the final, but just being there gave her a massive confidence based. and now her focus is very much on the world championships in rio de janeiro a few months from now. i lemon das, which whatever, if you finish in the top 3, you can relax listening. i know you've qualified for the olympics. that's what i am concentrating on right now in pres order. houghton moment tele, my son, concentrated on too much pressure for a teenager. not in her case for lily, the fun factor and performance go hand in hand. as is the case with a lot of people in the skateboarding scene. although not everyone has such a relaxed set up. the i'd, sooner sooner than a kid student,
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there are kids who are pushed to make it big in the us. it when it was out as or but then they don't go to school and only get home schooling she will again, didn't homeschooling, become so. negotiations been, i'm not sure that's the right way there is to get vegas vision. mention even are these kids getting properly prepared for life in society? outside skateboarding gayden? ah, back in berlin, lilies training program involves up to 4 sessions a week. but she's not neglecting her schooling. we join her and her little sister on their way home really has good grades which matters a lot to her family to and the the sport lamb can scans, i have other athletes with completely different and really problematic set ups. m laughlin i skaters or swimmers,
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i where they're training every day at the age of 6 or 7 fine heighten over her. m. bentley leader lily trained once or twice away her. and that makes a difference in dover dust mendis over you does not want a sheep mom and her dad used to be a skateboarder himself. he 1st had lily on the board at the tender age of 12, mumps. oliver started coaching her when she was 5 1st once a week and then progressively more until her appearance at the 2020 olympics, which most people at her school know about personal time. the outs is a sometimes they ask about how she or i feel during the competitions and our but i don't find it annoying. now rule as mentioned, you know, some teachers might know because i read in the news. but your average pupil has no idea who i am and there's a similar lack of fast when it comes to training preparations with her father.
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instead of rigid rules, the focus is more on creative freedom. in humor li, no. i normally have a plan for which will occur to me when i go to bed. and while i'm sleeping alpha for, you know, do you know the all think of this or that trick that we can do and was in for this . i mean, it's not as if we have no plan. it's very old though. there's certainly no yearly regular. alice planned. the hardwood, as was oliver is a quantity of trees off short a few normally schools over a quarter past 3. some few and after eating something, she starts her session at 5 without having had a break. always a good job doing that. so she has a little sleep while we're on the way there. and then we're busy until around $730.00. so we back home at 8 or $830.00 more into wickland and gibbs and after
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dinner, it's time for homework. so she does have a pretty full schedule on commission song. there's news just in from rio about disagreements between the world skate voting association and the prism in organizes the event is no longer either a world championship or an olympic qualifier. but for lily, it's about defending her title from 2021 in a country where the sport enjoys a different status. down on the coping gabana scape booting is far more popular than in europe. ah, nazareth of scathing grace with a brazilian audience. because they just love this for and are so supportive. however good or bad you are. so it's always amazing to come here to see as far as like some of them. some brazilian skate styles have instagram followings in the
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millions. the kind of appreciation that you don't see in europe, the line up in rio is absolutely top class isn't room is the best thing for an investment. it's really the criminal, a crown is got in and, and with the women in particular, the level is really shut up over the past year. every so missouri extreme, i hope you can see things developing on practically a week by week basis. you might in last night she, it's easy to forget that competitors like millions still essentially kids making the presence of their parents all the more important does. yeah. not. so yoga her age makes the organizational so i just as important what she was was i don't have his own making sure. she gets 2 or 3 hot meals a day. that there's enough money grade for on, and that she makes it to training on timing. cuz it doesn't english, one of those visitors. yeah, i'm sure she's here with the german team, but they're all adults and not necessarily responsive to the needs of the 15 year old. so anybody, all deborah officer,
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i'm still here. yeah. and i rio turns out to be challenging in various ways. in addition to seemingly incessant rain, the training runs keep getting postponed. often till late in the evening classes, lily had a high temperature even before leaving germany. but she did then get off to a good start. one run last was 45 seconds with skates is rated by speed, creativity. the difficulty delivery an range of tricks and that era counts with lilly is known for her stealing nerves. ah, the trials and tribulations don't seem to get to her. except then a brief but faithful lapse of concentration. ah, perhaps it was all a bit too much for the youngster with the might of tea, may teammates were all in hospital after getting injured, so the mood was
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a bit down. and i was already sick anyway, and got slammed on the day of the contest. i saw there were a lot of factors against me and i had to put in my absolute safety run woman up. so still finishing intent was way more than i imagined with deemed seen so bad. this was he wants to conduct center and there weren't any qualification points on the line this time anyway. although for, it's not just about the indian picks language. i'm not aiming for one in particular contest the student that called us as a sure the olympics are probably the biggest thing i would baron. so does all of us . but i just want to carry on skating well together with my friends going from contest to contest and maybe some day turning pro pro skater, nevada aud fun, perhaps prize money and sponsorship deals will mean i can earn a living for a few years back high schedule possible, a take a pion, the flag it would be oh,
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in the north sea. had gone on to germany's only island on the open sea. a day trip is nice, but it's better to stay 2 or 3 days on the island. that makes a real difference. it's the ideal place to slow down and relax. check in next d, w. o. shopping today. ah, shopping tomorrow. mm hm. so long superstore in the changing sector. mm. akila. the future piece in 45 minutes long,
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