When metals in sports dont give up on their goals. Now we asked you what it takes to reach the absolute summits of your sport is a talent grids or the spirit. He has what you told us. Kennedy see, tatiana says theres no definite answer to your question. Of course you have to be talented, have insurance, and on top of everything, you need a very strong fighting spirit. If you want to compete at the highest level. Solomon calling back to it says its a gift from god. And then we have gilbert here who, who says i will suggest that is support. When you get the support, the rest will be an additional priority for you and for your supporters. Thank you very much for those messages will stay with support and look at why champions need a good mentor. So it takes more than just time to make a champion. We need someone to recognize that gift, published the rough diamond within, and then promote us like a super fast. In other words, we need a mental experienced teachers, coaches, or trainers to guide us through thick and thin. At times we need someone to kick off the button training. Sometimes we need to show that to cry out or ahead to pick us up. Competitive sport is full of challenges and not just when the match starts for the race to get. So we always need a mentor in our corner who fights with us no matter what. In the eastern democratic republic of congo, some Young Athletes come from an imaginatively difficult background where war and hardship have left the deep scar coach cable bundle runs of bucks in school for youngsters to leave their troubles outside the ring cable. Mongo says every job and every hook is aimed at banishing the mentality of rebel soldiers to fancy footwork and power. For punches the young men looked at the takes back control of the distance from the rings of going to be sent in gum line. I wrestled boxing from the domain of maine, as she teaches young south african girls self defense growing up in cape town. Informal settlements has taught, and south africa has the power of paying the high cases of gender based violence. But sadly, not all sports officials have the athletes best interest at heart. In kenya, sports corruption effects people like web style costs, and he was almost no loop. You in a way to lift up i put all the apples i could, but unfortunately for example, so im like the direction which was supposed to be like, um my link to the scholarship and the lympics of really misappropriated funds that were supposed to ask me for my sports administrators with jail to find for best link funds, but the actions killed web started drinking. Thats not the only obstacle visa problems also stopped africans competing internationally for 10 years. Pioneer in kayak in king. Thats samuel tori. Even his passion, personal funds and stacks of paperwork have not always been enough to get him the visa to compete in europe and kayak and championships. We have to get lots of documents is uh like passports because invitations slaters our Bank Statements uh, premium. Okay. Uh, they quote statements on and all that stuff. I dont know why they do ask for all those documents. Its tough times like these way you need a mental or even a role model to help you through the Bureaucratic Society and mental hurdles of international competition. Ok, get a mentor check. What else intends on . Yeah, we have a saying thats goes really held in week one that to finally translation. A body is not built by briggs and yes, you guessed that. Well now look at nutrition. I know that champions are always very picky about what they need to weigh in meals, taking tons of supplements, a protein shake here in there. So what does a champions body need to perform at the highest level . My colleague direction, what do you found . Some surprising answers at the dw in house jim the now and getting read about food, but not just any kind of food, but the ones that is consumed by options and people who are hitting the same. Whether youll cycling or sitting out in the fields or even pumping or road watching each can make or break to. And thats why i reach out to my colleague, judge or catchy, who tells me more on the same hi. Just thanks for joining us today at and so you can start by giving us this quote on the supplements theory. The effects of software. It gives you the size of the, the size of the to the solvents. They do a lot of time. So issue a song as well. Okay. And whats the big estimates in terms of nutrition wise and the gym . Does do some food eats nothing and its okay. I mean jumps of hydration. Do you know me a device for people to cause a lot of what the overtime or are you the kind of person who likes to just take you to step at a time to go to the expect to change the language piece along for the last question lets talk about post, walk out to lunch, is when you go to the and see whats your recovery after whats due if she can hold broken or do you go for anything that you want thats on the table. You gave me the overall nutrition place thats critical. Thats totally fine. It depends on the like the treatment was 1214. 00. Thank you so much charge the thank you george and rachel and im sure its sheets meal here and there is totally ok, right. So what we put in our bodies is immensely important. But once youve got the nutrition part down, its time to do some actual work put in the hours perfect your skills, what does it take to build your physical and mental muscle . Rachel, have some answers, you know, it was for 12, everybody is trying to be physical, you have to find you look, theres someone trying to exercise. And so basically youre trying to looks like the Fitness Industry is booming and expected to grow by almost 10 percent in the coming years and get there are 639. 00 muscles in our body. Know tots, a lot of muscles to trade in uganda. Johnson is a 40 builder. He started working out in the gym to improve his mental health. After losing my beloved run, my. Oh, thats why i studied gym clothes. Twas a way of leaving me from my depression and all that stuff he wanted to fulfill his dream of becoming a more due and guessing commercial project. Now he wants topless in uganda as a form of exhibition and embracing. Hes african drugs. Many people would deed and not have to split a milan into tooth, but get this transel and use his own me, his high and i feel better now and i feel myself. And when i look at myself in the mirror, i be like, you know, im an art thatd be like, yeah, i can share this amazing art to the people outside the icons tie as them also be themselves and do Something Better for them. But hey, did you know that all but is only the only thing that need exercise aubrey store too, and just like muscles they need checking the workouts to stay healthy and fit. This is what pull the like, champions are doing in a different projects is going to its all about making angles, planning shorts and figuring out how to win in the pool game to focus strategy. And a little bit of fitness making is that when you made a 99 the, the 1st one has got to be patient out and read really. And even when losing the one line, you know, the ones who mostly got on what train, you dont have to lose hope. Youve got to keep training, which will show you maybe also many might not consider brain sports as traditional sports. Kenyas elizabeth custody is changing the narrative. The young upcoming chest mazda is one of the best in the country and has won several championships. Elizabeth sees there are a lot of things to consider becoming a chest mazda before i made debt to them, and i, honestly, i end up more lives now. Bless. So my dad does this motivate. Elizabeth plays with a father to perfect strategies, and tactics has become very difficult to play a coach plus now she is more advanced than me. So me training is the, is i telling you what he thinks the gym for making stuff as just moves, exercising with your brain as a mind is helpful for a child, because this makes you say physically and mentally saying mentally fit, having a sharp mind thats exactly what you need, if you want to excel in east sports. Alright. Alright. I know there were times when you would only get smears if you told people thats playing video games competitively for hours is considered an actual sport. But we set out to prove once and for all that african mindsets are changing. Off within the game is, are uniting showcasing the skills and embracing the thrill of competition, whether its mustering strategy in the league of legends or showing of lightning fast reflexes in call of duty, gaming is blowing up on the coincidence. In sub Saharan Africa alone, there are some, a 186 medium gamers and fax number is rising according to the office like games, industry reports, and get those. You can make some serious cards from each tube. In south africa, plans have raised in meetings of dollars by winning tournaments in recent years in ivory coast. This, this incredible culture feeling is competitive. Video gaming is starting to become a thing here. The mindset has to change because video gaming is now in International Industry to do it. The important thing about the sport is that it has the capacity to attract a huge audience. So thats who will come and watch in a bit like other sports. Today, some games kind of tracking the millions of people who connect on line and just to be able to watch others play any. And in kenya, sylvia g, a k, a queen arrow is absolutely can i get this mailed them united scene. And i started out gaming level people and different from my parents were in different documents, skeptical way, listening to and gaming, metals, california studies much, i know the font thats in the west and in asian country is its possible to make a living also something that you can enjoy now shes making a fortune out of a whole, be traveling around the world and promoting her brand. And she hopes small female gamers will fly. Can you smoke high something . Id say the best revenge and still the success im just hungry to succeed them. All to 100, you know, just overcome these obstacles enough ive really made with since i started my career, that is to say, mentioned um, way a little i think the same way come from some point. Im just going to come bulls and mutual been forced to go to move. All right. Might take away so far as that, whether its east sports boxing or weight lifting. What you need to be really good is to have a very clear goal in mind. But that goal doesnt always have to be winning a metal. In total, michael in the samsung id, like you found out that you can get a workout. And at the same time, be a champion for the environment. The, the good news serve all this trouble. Yes, i for you the Public School schedule. Im believe it or both will be do the judging both with a minute. Let me tell you it just know done. Emphasize it just pay it to doesnt matter. We do the combination of business on plan. But roommates i go through all echo ducking you clinical environment was drug is always the possible to do when we begin. We are going to the doctor who. Hm. Oh well, im you please stop this last youll see on the way. So let me do it. I did rob, i think its like im, youre on the sample. I just want the money to go with. Im just looking to get up to the to the spectrum, a dead mod done. You talked to shield on walls of plastic bags and it looks, it looks easy to have one kilogram of this. You can show you where to focus on plastic loan for each of the plastic bug that was seen on the drug test. For mo, done the about the 100 years on the, on the go. So you have lots of dots said that the sun. Yes, yes. The people dont think just so you should receive them. I read it was such a is. This is the victim of the result points i would recall vista to give them a lot that like i you know, tell me what is the secret behind your passion for a good judging i. 33, made to be in the head and the game. We just bought it and also we put there to, oh wow, im just let me, why do you guys decided to, you know, go with women this way. My uh, new, if i talk about the remains and we know that women, but its but, and we need to test them its, its very important to do sparks. And also to pull that, ill be able to make, we know that women have in there 5 minutes. The best thing to talk to, to go ahead and take care of their house is how i mistake what theyre doing. Make this kind of feel sense. Go to them, we, we, i show that its a mazda 5 meeting. Well have a daily stage. Yeah. Sorry, to witness the unity of the combination of these individuals to make a difference in the community. And i love it. So thank you so much. Samsung for that record from toggle. All right, so having a goal is super important, but you and i know that setting a goal is one thing. Following through is another thing. As we get distracted discouraged, we chose to watch tv instead of going for a run. So our final question today was kind of the mindset. Do you need to become a champion in elder . Its, can you my colleague edith combined me had a deep conversation with the one and only multiple marathon record semester. And he would keep, cho get the press. Colton. Goat, which is short for the greatest of old time american gonna live, keep children. Indeed, the 5 human standards, especially since a kenyan broke records in vienna in 2019. As the 1st human in history keeps choke, it broke the 2 hour barrier at most on average pace of competing one kilometer in 2 minutes. 50 seconds in 2021. He won his 2nd looms a gold medal. But who is the person behind the world . Famous athlete . Its a very big firm. Its very beautiful. You dont plan on retiring single, you know, you know, but the not yet, but they those, but i totally know what i was to say. So well, who is here, you would stop running, im guessing maybe the most competing. Lots of fun. Yeah. Yes. I mean its, its a, be me enough. Now, this is the agency you when you see everything that youve accomplished, surely you must feel very proud of yourself. Oh yes, i am proud of myself. I am proud of those. Luckily, as a in, in, in, in my, my surrounding the to those tell me i couldnt. Yeah. Could there piano . Yeah, thats actually what i wanted to talk about the people who are around you and tell you able to keep a very strong mind despite to all of the challenges. So is it ok for go sit in your bun . I saw some haystacks. Today we are going to take you back to us and put you in haste. Okay, now, okay, its good. I. Ashley its, its particular and do a lot of stress and pressure. They have mental challenges, which they sometimes dont talk to people about how would you assess the states of sportsmen and women, the mental health, particularly in kenya. Right now. I think i could have this, this good sports man who might not carries this increase and then send for attendance. But so its sort of a, its a, its a, its a sad asylum. A at leaving would have things that owned by the people. Have you ever found yourself in that situation where you were experiencing these high levels of stress . And so how did you deal with it . Ive been surrounded for the 18 year for the last. Do you think so than most of the people . What talk to lean in school with an outside the sport. So i think that in my left to and i be not really sofa but the following. Now that i have to, if i lose, and ive in the find you, ill tell you myself which i call, which i can live without that happening so they can die with those things. What are these values that you see . You know, thats so important to you, the, to actually country without them the fun you are, can you indicative in school with what they mean by ticket. These kid i to, to go to the next to mind, cut a to face. Anything we named in my life to the funding of the family to find yourself displaying the funds you of course, the distance so i can live without, without those values, then that is my. So who are these people that youve surrounded yourself with what you say . You know, the ones who quoted together when things are a bit shaky. So im surrounded by my court, but took fun. Im getting more to follow as im cutting the. Whats needed from me in spite of stephen of leaving this concept. Yeah. Can you tell me maybe some of the, the key points that to he is hes taught to over the years. I mean, youve been with him a long time. Is that the, the 1st the point is trusting myself as a treated myself as the best on leaving owing us to life those last 34. And if i can, we just we keep telling me when that when i still yeah. Yeah. I guess im trying to understand how you manage to control your emotions so well because he said in previous interviews, a disappearing is one of the ways to do that. Is this the only way . Because youre very tempered, i understand life. No, no, and this was something you need to understand life on anything comes in the way, you know, make, i think we need to understand what they see, what they dislike. And theres such alex, thats wonderful. And how would you advise, you know, these young professionals, im sure you run with them here all the time. They must see you on the streets and want to give you a high 5 and one to get to autograph. How do you advise them to face the challenges of today because young people are grappling with a lot a you need to, to show that you have profession, not to feel professional is just pending, acadia. Who respect your profession, allison . You walk up really and respect the ethics or football field. Profession allison. So its some of the things i totally find you at the end of bustling its easy to manage. Its easy to esteem anything under and stealing a post. The boy, but developing seen anything that, that typically is a file you use or e p e, or hes funny or the end of my not home kind of what i call it a sweet and some what, how, you know, theyve got the flu and i really love that to keep coming back to this whole idea of values and i think im finally getting it that if its done for something, then its hard for people to present one equals in you in the sense when you think about your future at the moment. Because you are a man whos accomplished everything in your career at this point. What do you visualize . Oh, i think i have visualizing that. So if i need to map code or country town and country, im doing all of that in one of the full quarter to 12. Ill tell you that because it can support c, m. C, along create the platform to inspire the next generation and, and, and 10000 people that took leave. You either say yes in your hands and transferred to your mind. Im saving you more than you can sort of vote for thats about any other profession, delta we need to buckle to expect that professions. We need people to 3 and 50 and a set of signing and 15 to in their families, their friends that may have of that. So then of course, thats the thing. My entities, my bucket please. Yeah, thats a very busy bucket. Just so how do you plan on making us are running nation or running world because its one thing to be inspired by you, but its another thing to wake up in the morning and run yourself. Im trying to tell people that so before you do anything, you can spare you documented, sandra. What about this, jen . This will behind us who are saying and the other be they dont have time. Its too busy the schedule. What do you say to them . There is nobody who is the same thing, so that is notice one screen facing before that inside of support speech, but not sponsibility. The same question. You just need to make time for it is here and stick with a time. 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