a while you're up to date, but stick around up next on dw, the story of a supremely talented boxer faces opposition as much for her nationality as for her fighting skills. and david levitz, thanks for watching the double. you check out our website that's dw, the people in trucks in judge west trying to feed the city center. the straight screen, the around the world, more than 130000000 people us. we of mine because no one should have to make up your own

mind dw, may feel mine's the to the my name is danita cindy. katie and i was born in preston now. and i most pull books and champion in cost as i said, the whole solo don't yet have started clues. many honors in the ring include 2015 vice world junior champion 2017 vice european champion 2018 european champion. 2022 world and european championships bronze medalist and 24. the 3 championed the football cans. she's a supremely talented lightweight boxer, but there is a problem. just one. i always grade the championships on held in

a country that doesn't recognize the cost of items over the product position. i might not be able to compete in those countries, simply because i represent costs a very profound cycle. so one, what is your finding for a nation back for many other countries doesn't exist. politics note me out the door, the other side to coach children read was born in 1999. she's been boxing since she was 12 years old today. she's among the top 3 boxes in her category in terms of punching power. she's a multiple winner of domestic and international titles, and her tale is lower than it might be,

because she's not allowed to box everywhere. more so if i'm on, sophia smarter and look up, you know, i've been unable to compete to 3 well championships held in india and all the and for the european championship inside the i think that my participation will be denied because i represent cost, divide that them so number of thought cycle so on in fairly sporting terms, donetta is not worried about her future. she trains hard every day. but unlike most other fellow boxers, she also faces a fight on the political front. dozens of countries including china, russia and spain do not recognize for suffering t of cost of, oh, cool thing is it's a lot to face intestinal obstacles, not being able to compete for political reasons. giga is and that really talk to on

the, on the data. i might have been preparing some months to participate in the collection of these and if one doesn't bundle and on the day before, because one been told that my entry has been kept on store for me, got you in the solution here to show more than what it was telling me to pull, it's always very d, most of a take them with the dean. but i've turned all these barriers into a source of strength in force and into metals. latoya. it's really very difficult. so i always pray that the championships aren't hosted in a country that doesn't recognize the independence of costs. if i move on the new event, cool, i'm going, you know, because then my participation is not always guaranteed, nor do i just one. and of course the is a good a it's early august and christian are members of the aisle painting and dias for a are out in force. and the cost of and capital had a big note of boxing. the organizer is a former world champion to until 2014 represented cost of of since then robin crust

. and if she has not had zone yet, has problems for one simple reason. he changed his passport. now he represents germany leading don't yet have wishing that costs about could have the same status as his adopted country. the price of the king to terminate in november 2004. it was easy in the beginning. as everyone who does that experience has immigrating, isn't easy to get over the years we've overcome those problem about the end of the year we are. and finally, we can give something back to our native country. those phones. i'm deborah the lawn to all of us to sort of get past that. she is hosting this bossing event, precisely because he hasn't forgotten his homeland. and because he wants to draw attention to the difficult situation facing box, there isn't costs about fact. then he himself saw no other option then to leave his own country. as the pos, i also go to germany passport because it enables you to fly anywhere for

competitions. so it's something it definitely needs as it sort of a one over the price for sonya and robin 1st met 3 years ago and he's confident she has a great teacher in the ring, desktops. i'm very proud of her, and i think she has a lot of potential. i can see her winning a major title. that's a nama children there. got also as a proof of hope, your will jump in your goods and often them with the for decades ago. syrups and ethnic albanians all lived in one country, yugoslavia, and they all had a common champion, a scenario of the scenes unimaginable today. one of the few costs of our boxers who is live the dream of participating in every global competition as a representative of all communities is axis sally who born and pushed it out. in 1984,

he became the 1st boxer of cost of our albanian descent to compete at the olympics . those representing the former yugoslavia were able to take part in all competitions on like costs of our athletes today. think about this, the best of the time i represented the 25000000 people 100. i was always number one in yugoslavia. southern it'd been crime and national champion. 10 times thing was an absolute joy and composite about then i started boxing in europe. i knew in the world war to deal and think so to move on and be on in the collapse. so do you. this lobby began in 1991 with the country, then gradually splitting up into individual states. comfortable as a war for independence from the serbian dominated regime ended in 1999. eventually costs a vote declared itself a sovereign country in 2008. but the bloody conflicts between serbs and ethnic

albanians have created deep divisions. so deep that they still don't recognize each other. almost a quarter of a century after nato intervention ended the cost of the war. after a decade of diplomatic efforts to normalize relations, the situation worse and again, tensions have been rising once more since 2021, exacerbated by the killing of a cost of our police man in the town to find scott by ethnic serbs in september 2023 the hoping she'll be allowed to compete in the next competition. sonya is fully motivated to train, in addition to the issue of countries, not recognizing her passport. she also has problems with financial backing and costs of, of due to the limited funding provided by the young countries. also worries alternators comes from the status of said from the food and youth and form. and

it's really difficult for me is a large because in order to prepare the new to in the right form for a competition form and we are forced to change between one or 2 different locations . the super sickening sits and up forces. so on the 20th, it's another home that we have at the moment. doesn't even have to necessarily strength and conditioning equipment. then there's lots to start off. and then there's a lot of trouble flowing, sol, so we have to train on concrete event that leads to a lot of injuries among the assets. and, you know, at this point, this is discussed. it's something that the a so just not to pay more attention to this, of the looking at where the lead sports men and women with great potential can do that. training is what these fits. it. a couple of things, instead of some small boxing federation of costs of i was aware of the problems the poor training conditions are also linked to among other things, to the political situation in the country. constable is a small and relatively poor, a nation unless if a little know or send the ration,

we have a very small and limited budget, which doesn't provide us with the means to support our boxers as much as we should for with this budget. and we struggle even to cover the general, the costs of international competitions that take place. so it's like a country looking forward if i can go around the moment to turn them off. one of those moments when i really wanted to quit boxing was often losing at the tokyo 2020 and then picks up, got you in the it was a huge disappointment and left me in dispatch. possibly be all just after the impact. so i sat down and so it's about why i was depressed. so i'm why this has happened to me. more of the total, more i found a new team and a new spirit. we just had really positive results from positive adopted 2 years of training in 2022 together with my new coach. and we made a huge breakthrough for the cost of the office major metal in 40 years and bought a couple of vetoes. despite all the obstacles and the motivating circumstances,

there was no time for rest. a new day, same exercises in the same hall. the site for one of each of them is it's not just believing. i know the tell bring back in and impact metal costs of i. once i'm start, start on the comp say whether we still be gold, silver or wrong most because the school she's really big and bulky. and this thing is possible. you must natalia sort of visa and once i've got the best selling pick metal, who am i think my coach and i will move up to the professional level books improve as soon as 5 nights. i'm such a big events that it's being held in a football stadium. former world champion, robin crescent. she is focusing professionally in kosovo for the 1st time. sonia to enter trainer mo, you'll know sallow kind of don't want to miss the chance to be ringside for the bout. with the hope that one day don't. yes, it will be in the same position. the

cost of our athletes are set to enjoy these a free travel in the us of 2024, but restrictions elsewhere remained difficult for plenty of us. but the rough estimate, the removal of the visa obligations is very and i am in robin and i are in different dimensional symbols. i compete and i'm a to book single while he's a professional. and the best way to rubbing has lots of advantages when it comes to entering competition. lot of the my mom to me having a passport from the costs of the there are a range of obstacles. nothing is such, but i hope that in the future i'll also be able to compete in on other countries without any problems at all. and then you start the of the oven. does it go? i'm still thing is a boss thing. event like this can help raise awareness, but something needs to change. it might not make a difference politically, but sonya to and others with the same problems,

at least feel that they are not forgotten. all the right, how much to the guy to my dream is to compete to, to a level where all the best books is competing and all you can afford on that. and i really believe that invoice. how much? uh, on professional books. okay. very, very far. uh, some shots from a sporting point of view, tonja is sure she'll achieve her goals, but to continue her successes in international boxing, her passport needs to be accepted everywhere. and for that to happen, a lot still has to change in the political arena, the or the, if we speak different language share the same culture. ours discrete

people and what, it's just a 100 days. my parents are the big parts of my family. what killed i'm on a journey to find out about the roots of the 19 are to put you on the site because for to see the rhonda. my name is some way to ship where i'm a shouldn't make or read shaming you stream next on d w. we love us. we love diversity. anything, no mountain is too high. no road is too long, and so it's a fixture ordinary. we have a specialist of lifestyle 009 in to oh is on d w i. she's got any issues or thoughts see who the

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