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tv   Sports Life  Deutsche Welle  May 19, 2024 6:15am-6:31am CEST

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to leave a closing cord shopping alone, so go to exact, sort of the reception some funds will move to, to witnessing soccer history in the making quite a bit. decided great, but that's a lot from us, but do sticker on for sports life that's coming up next i'm number such as well for mean being tired, your team behind the scenes. thank you so much for being with us. the so you don't think you the same way you expect and more and different things from life. when your parents do i just want to pursue what that's my thoughts or you think your kid is 2 different risk, irresponsible. reasonable stopping port is not i want my son to the doctor still in the cloud. it's time to, to get in your generation with
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a sleep asked and then when generation slash on down here, this kind of fun. it feels like therapy, the . this is one of kenya's best kayak is in training. me 545 will be that like the 1st thing until the following fix. this slot kaya. so that's a beacon lots well it's happening championships held almost exclusively in europe for africans like sammy missouri. that can be an obstacle for us to go out and participate in any events for the country. we have to get lots of documents submitting all those documents is not
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a 100 percent. like we are going to get to be this. so there is someone behind the desk somewhere who have to be side of jacob at different points and decide whether you're going to go out or not 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 slalom kayaking in 2015. he began to see the roses with fresh ice. i used to see him said somewhat from that eva taking the back home and i was young after we had that obligation to ship everyone about what did they quote? so these are big sport, this big bose in spite sammy and he started to become
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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 space. my father used to be a kind of photo double blade on one blade. good broken that's available. uh stick. i decided to improvise, but i figured it out and i use it for my training. so improvisation is key. somebody is preparing to take part in the continuous law and world cup in spain and the world 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 and so they keep prints for us to get maybe like a bottle of a kayak in the country. it will cost
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a lot like the k x we are using right now. the old old button, 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. a few weeks we have been trading really hard. he's a tough as lead now. about the 1st steps on the what was the were not so easy when i joined the club this, that a lot i so i would, i had some friends who helped me for me. i do enjoy every minute when i'm in there with the tire instead of my main being totally and winning that with these by a few other people on. i just want to see packing. going and coming a big boat in slowing them. kayaking involves completing
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a costs of hunting gates and the fastest time possible. green gates are crossed while moving down stream. fuck rate gates must be crossed in an upstream direction, oscillates and europe often training in the office of disease without official with is and 5 o'clock 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 it 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, green falls uh reviews things and cable that we have like both types. so we painted them green and red just to identify the upstream on the dose data. that's our own way on how to do a level for see if as this disposing and the equipment related obstacles when to
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now the biggest challenge lies ahead for sammy guessing baez's in the capital 9 rugby 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 before going for 2 different offices. looking for a visa and all that. but yesterday and today we've 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. yeah. for us to go out and
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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 the premium. okay. uh they quote statements on 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 a 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. to all those kind of questions and you're just going for support then turned back 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 5 years,
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let's say more and wait for like the nic calling because somebody has good reason to be consent off to being invited to the 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 use 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 whole 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
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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, this is the out of the what the 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 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,
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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, i didn't want these to get resist. so i don't know what time remaining with he's just dropping the documents into the building over there. i'm hoping we'll get into the the 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 mutiny ration of sedona locals to take an interest in this for the. okay, you'll continue games meet when you go into those sweet about forward sweets and bucks week's window, but then you come back. all right, let's see it. do it so no nice
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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 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'm, i also know the happy for me. um yeah. i'm so tired, man said email i was training. it was too fine. yeah. so next month, what i'll do 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 those guys. when no one, no my demo with a boat,
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this visa stuff about the stuff. yeah. it's been hard to go 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 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 is but, but unfortunately i don't have the u. k visa. so i will have to sit my passport back home to get. 2 visa for u. k. to be something they're going to say, but that's hoping all everything will go to summer would all be as um, you know,
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for the guns even though my buckboard. uh, my boss. uh, i would say it like back to kenya and kind of, i don't know where the, the going us down bit toner. sunny is u. k. visa was ultimately granted that 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 sea fast out of $105.00 and failed to qualify. punch, he tells us his dream of becoming the 1st pallet to be present. can you see a lympics still lives on the
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