and that's all from us for now. coming up next, sports lives, takes a look at a kenyan mans olympic dreams on the visa challenges and faces just to qualify. i'm going to jones from me the news team here in berlin. thanks so much the can you see what old cars have to do with you production? here's a hands on really indeed much now on youtube. why do humming does not get drunk? why do grab a tasteful waves, squeeze all bodies. how much do we need

a day to stop fun praying for help find beyond this gets lost on dw science and i'll take 10 of the this is one of kenya's best kayak is in training. if i put, if i leave that microphone, can enter the olympics and this slide them. so that's a big box. well, it's happening championships, health, 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 country. 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 that

somewhere will have to be cited. i'll check on different minutes and decide whether we are going to go out on 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, will slot them kayak. in 2015, he began to see the roses with fresh eyes. i used to see him fed somewhat to somebody by taking the back home and i was young after we had that obligation to ship everyone about what did they quote? so these a big sport, this big spose in science army and he started to become a kayak pioneer and kenya with minimal equipment. so guys,

i'm ready for the team today. so that's my hadn't met my jacket in my face that my father used to be a coyote bottle. double bled on one blade. good. broken that's available. uh stick. i decided to improvise, but i figure it out and i use it for my training. so improvisation is key as somebody is preparing to take part in the canoe salon and world cup and 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 the lived in france and they have easy access on kayaks in full. thank you, friends 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 tried 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 hot. he's a tough athlete now about the 1st steps on the what was the were not so easy when i joined the club this level and i said 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 instead of my main to the following week, maybe and winning now with these by a couple of people. and i just want to see the packing going and coming a be getting a lot of kayaking involves completing a course of handing gates and the fastest time possible green gates across to all

moving down stream. red gates must be crossed in an upstream direction, oscillates in europe, often training into facilities with artificial rivers and fiberglass gates. but here on this, the gone to semi and his friends make do with what they have in kenya. the as of, if you meant for us stretches we have the most chatted us compared to other countries. this loan get uh so important. um that is uh you have to maneuver that on the uh, being for uh, reviews being and cable that we have like both types. so we painted them green and red just to identify the upstream on the dos you get. yeah. that's our own. we own house to do a level 40, if as if disposing and equipment related, obstacles weren't enough. the biggest challenge lies ahead for sammy guessing

baez's in the capital. nairobi we seem to have around like 1010 days before we fly out for a form of edition. uh, for the couple of days we, we've not been saying we've been to night will be almost for like 3 or 4 days. stressful. uh, going full uh through defense offices. uh, looking for a visa and all that bought yesterday and today. uh, 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 purchased 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, premium. okay. uh they quote 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 types of questions and you're just going for for the time back home. so if i don't get a chance the on the on these events, and i'll have to wait for another like 4 or 5 years to say more and wait for like the nic calling because somebody has good reason to be consent of to

being invited to a u. k. olympic qualifying 2015. he acquired 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. so in 2022 visa delay is caused canyon spencer setting, not on yana to be left behind, while his teammates traveled ahead to the world athletics championships in the united states. the o africa recruit holder had his visa to na 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. first, supposing, superstar office like been in these athlete or d, o 11 knew were even less fortunate despite being the only african to qualify for the contests. hip test alone, she was never grown to the visa at all. even well,

huge business travelers, face months, long backlogs, when applying for visas at western embassies with the interview process can be grueling and invasive. so actually it's like semi the recurring 2 hour bus johnny to nairobi means he's at a disadvantage. so for us to get visas, we have to as, as the out of the what the and we have to go tonight will be done every day. slipping 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 he prepares 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 the and sometimes i

didn't actually on the time, i didn't want these to get pieces. so i don't know what time remaining would. he's just dropping these documents into the building over there. i'm hoping we'll get that either the application is now out of somebody's hands and he's able to focus on what he loves most. preparing for his upcoming contests. i'm motivating a new generation of sedona locals to take an interest in the support the. okay, you'll continue games need when you go into those suite much about the forward sweets and bucks, weeks were there, but then you come back. all right, let's see it now. do it so know. 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 this year, he wasn't meant to come with us in space, but he didn't have uh, fox sports. and i'm sure it was a hustle for visas. yeah, we have a big group. nobody on your from the same area, vo, leasing me, not on this. and i'm happy to be present them, you know, big events on. i also know via how before we got them. i know um yeah. i'm so tired man, reading this training. it was to find the boat next month. what i'm doing next month. we have 2 competitions. as a world cup and the world championships, emily, i finally divide, i don't know if this training of those will be enough for us to go over there and compete with those guys this window. now my demo with a boat, there's visa stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard when the night will be to

go to night, ruby and come back, things like that. but anyway, let's try what we can we gotta 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 send my passport back home to get a visa for you. k, to be something they're going to say, but does hoping all everything will go through some of what it will be as um you know, for the guns we, we, those my boss boards and my boss. i would say that like spot to kenya and

kind of, i don't know where the, the goodness doesn't fit. toner, sunny is u. k. visa was ultimately granted, bought his passport, was mailed back late. he had to re book his flight and last important days for preparation in london. sammy came in a c, so passed out of $105.00 and failed to qualify. thoughts. he tells us his dream of becoming the 1st pallet to a present kenya. the lympics still lives on the clears view of the outer space. huge still. this goes in the, to lay in a to come

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