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i know i might just do it and i'm hosting dw new podcasts. thanks. trace amount, but there's no actually about move. joining us as we travel around your, facing the history of every day of that. and that's something right around the world. and i need to talk to you about just a subscriber id. listen to podcasts, and we'll take you along to the right the . this is one of kenya's based 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. we developed countries. we have to get lots of nothing in that meeting. all

those documents is not a 100 percent. like we are going to get to be this. so there is someone behind the desk somewhere will have to be side of jacob and different minutes and decided with that we have going to go out on the the, the few natural landscapes of basis use it for slalom kind of training. then central can use to gone over the god you sent me to recruit up just steps from its banks of this region was chosen to host the african championships for slalom kayaking. in 2015, he began to see the roses with fresh ice. i used to see him fed somewhat to somebody taking the back home and i was young after we had that,

i think that you and the ship, everyone about what did they quote? so there's a big sport. this big bows inspired sammy and he started to become a kayak pioneer and kenya with minimal equipment. so guys, i'm ready for team today. so that's my helmet. my jacket in my face got my bottle used to be a kayak bottle, double blade on one blade. good, broken that's available. uh stick. i'd say that to improvise profit sort out and use it for my training. so improvisation is key as somebody is preparing to take part in the canoe. sloan and world cup in spain and the bull championships in london, which double as the qualifies for the parents 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 t. v in front of the have easy access on kayaks in for that coupon 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 try 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 said were not so easy when i joined the club this i don't i so 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, my main thing, i think maybe in winning that with these way up to those people and i just want to see the packing, growing and coming up be doing

a lot of kayaking involves completing a course of hanging gates and the fastest time possible green gates across dwelling moving down stream. red gates must be crossed in an upstream direction. states in europe, often training into a facilities without the official withers and 5 o'clock gates. but here on this, the gone to semi and his friends make do with what they have in 10 years. so if you meant and infrastructure, you have the most chatted us compared to other countries. this loan, good. uh, so important that is uh you have to maneuver that on the uh, being for uh, reviews, being and cable. they do have like both types. so we painted them green and red just to identify the ups. do you mind the dosing get?

yeah. that's our own. we own house to do a level 40. if as this disposing and the equipment related obstacles went enough. the biggest challenge lies ahead for sammy guessing. visa is in the capital . nairobi we seem to have around like 1010 days before we fly out for a combination of with a couple of days we've, we've not been saying we've been to night will be almost for like 3 or 4 days. dressing for going for 2 different offices, 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 is almost like going. but the stress of his visa sagas, seeing returns at home, piles of documents are still waiting to be submitted to the spanish and push

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 slater's our bank statements, uh, criminal record 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 just going for sportsmen 10 bucks on. so if i don't get a chance the on the on these events,

and i'll have to wait for another like for of ideas that say more and wait for like the nic calling because somebody has good reason to be consent off to being invited to a u k olympic qualifying 2015. he applied his 1st post post at great personal expense, but the british 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's course 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 for 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, hip test loan, she was never grown to the visa at all even well, huge business travelers phase months, long backlogs, when applying for visa is at western embassies with the interview process can be grueling and invasive. so actually it's like sammy, the recurring 2 hour bus, done a 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 on the time, or even monday to get visas, 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, and motivating a new generation of sedona locals to take an interest in this for the. okay, you'll continue games to meet when you go into those suite much about the forward sweets and bucks week's window, but then you come back. all right,

let's see it. do it so no nice so uh ben's 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 a passport. and i'm sure it was a hustle for visas. yeah, we have a big group. nobody on your from the same area. the all we sing me, not of this. and i'm happy to be present them, you know, big events on i'm. i also know the happy for me. um yeah, i'm so tired man, sitting this training, it was to find the boat next month. what i'm doing next month. we have 2 competitions. there's a world cup in the world championships, emily,

i finally divide. i don't know if this training of ours will be enough for us to go over there and compete with us guys. window homepage. now my demo with the boat, this visa stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard to get a nipple hot when and they told me to go to night 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 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? sure. 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 sit in my passport, but hope to get a visa for you. k. it'd be something you're going to say bucks. just hoping all

everything will go to some, awarded all v, as i'm, you know, for the guns, even though my buckboard. uh, my boss, i will set it like back to kenya and i'm kind of, i don't know where the, the goodness doesn't fit toner. sony is you k visa was ultimately granted. bob, his passport was mailed back late. he had to re book his flight and lost imposing 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 be present can you at the olympics still lives on the . 2 the,

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