Really you know, on is you to the this is one of kenyas best kayak is in training. If i would, if i leave it like the 1st thing until the following pics, this slide them. So thats a beacon lots well its happening championships. I held almost exclusively in europe for africans like send me 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 that meeting all those documents is not a 100 percent. Like we are going to get to be this. So there is someone behind this somewhere will have to be side of jacob. And if for minutes, then decide whether youre 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 re grew 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 watches with fresh eyes. I used to see him fed somewhat to from that he was taking the back home when i was young. After we have that, i think i tend to shift everyone about what did they quote . So theres a big sport this big suppose inspired sammy. And he started to become a kayak pioneer and kenya with minimal equipment. So guys, im ready for team today. So thats my head minutes. My jacket in my space. My father used to be a kayak puddle, double bled on one blade. Good broken. Thats a bumble. Uh, stick. I decided to improvise, but i figured it out and i use it for my training. So improvisation is key as somebody is preparing to take part in the canoe slot in world cup and spain and the bull championships in london, which double as the qualifies for the powers and impacts. Hes keen near aware of the resource gap between the gear. He has and whats available in europe, most of the other these lives in france and they have easy access on kayaks and oh they keep print for us to get maybe like a bottle of a kayak in the country. It will cost a lot like the k x we are using right now. The old old button. We just try to maintain them because we know its hard to get any of the equipments down here for the last few months and few weeks we have been trading really hard. Hes a tough as lead now. About the 1st steps on the what was the were not so easy when i joined the club, this island club i so i would, i had some friends who helped me for me. I do enjoy every minute when im in the city, but my main thing calling in winning though with these by a few of the people on the packing going and coming a big boat in kenya sloan, im kind of getting involved, completing the costs of hunting gates, and the fastest time possible green gates across 12 moving down stream. Fucked rate gates must be crossed in an upstream direction. States in europe, often training into a facilities without the official with is and 5 oclock gates. But here on this, the gone to semi and his friends make do with what they have in kenya, the as of agreement and infrastructure. We have the most chatted us compared to other countries. This loan get uh so important that is uh you have to maneuver that on the uh, green falls uh reviews being and cable that we have like both types. So we painted them green and red. Just to identify the ups. Do you mind the dosing get . Yeah, thats our own we own house to do a level for see if as this disposing and the equipment related obstacles when to now, the biggest challenge lies ahead for sammy guessing baezs in the capital 9 rugby we seem to have around like 1010 days before we fly out for our form of edition. Uh for the couple of days we, weve not been saying weve been to night will be almost for like 3 or 4 days. Just before going for 2 different offices. Looking for a visa and all that. But yesterday and today weve had a chance to do a training. Thats why i have a smile on my, on my face. I like what, uh and this is almost like going back to space 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 participate in an event, because thats a country we have to get lots of documents is uh like passports because invitations slaters our bank statements. Uh the premium. Okay. Uh they quote statements on and all that stuff. I dont 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 will not kind that i would we yeah. If you go out there, youre not like going and thing there for the lets it doesnt feel comfortable for you. Yes. All those kind of questions and you just going for sportsmen turned back on. So if i dont get a chance the on the on these events, and ill have to wait for another like for 5 years. Its a mall 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 used for another half decade. Its a problem sized by many african athletes, even at the highest levels. In 2022 visa, todays course canyon spencer funding, 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 non 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 11 new 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 its like semi the recurring 2 hour bus johnny to nairobi means hes 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. Slipping our sessions on training. Somehow visit for cameras. Im 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 dont know the guy behind the desk with that hes going to approve all my documents. And ive done these before going into the m s. C. And sometimes i didnt actually on the time, i didnt want these to get resist. So i dont know what im remaining with. Hes just dropping these documents into the building over there. Im hoping well get into the the the application is now out of sammys hands. And hes able to focus on what he loves most, preparing for his upcoming contests. Im most advising a new generation of sedona locals to take an interest in this for the. Okay, youll continue games meet when you go into those sweet about forward sweets and bucks weeks window, but then you come back. All right, lets see it. Do it so know. Nice. Busy bens on hes one of the other thing we have. I dont think i know he was like the best junior for the last one, but he wasnt meant to come with us in space. But he didnt have uh, fox sports, and im sure it was a hustle for visas. Yeah, we have a big group. Nobody on the all the same area, vo, leasing me, not on this. And im happy to be present them. You know big events on im i also know the happy for me. Um yeah. Im so tired man. They doing this training. It was too fine. Yeah. So next month, what im doing next month we have 2 competitions. As a world cup in the world championships, emily, i finally divide. I dont know if this training of others will be enough for us to go over there and compete with those guys when no one, no my demo with a boat, this visa stuff about the stuff. Yeah. Its been hard to win and i dont think to go to my ruby and come back, things like that. But anyway, lets try what we can were gonna do. Im just waiting to see if this visa hope can be go and tell you that. Lets hold on one. So its almost time for lunch. Why do we head up and grab something to eat . Sure. The day of sammys departure has finally arrived, and hes delighted by the news from the spanish embassy. Today the day, im so excited. Im heading to the airport, i already have this buddys visa. Busy and im going to put it in my country is but, but unfortunately, i dont have the u. K visa. So i will have to send my passport back home to get a visa for u k. To be something theyre going to say, but thats hoping all everything will go to summer would all be as um, you know, for the guns even though my buckboard. Uh, my boss. Uh, i would set it like back to kenya and kind of, i dont know where the, the goodness doesnt fit toner. Sony is, you k visa was ultimately granted, bought 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. But he tells us his dream of becoming the 1st pallet to be present can you at the olympics still lives on the. 2 the, the new will tell you the we are happy that we are back to the story. We have a, getting a visa is more difficult than finding gold hosted to use the sales force and the for the future in the stories and issues that are being discussed across the con. Use africa. Next on d. W. Clear is to be a huge stay. Lets go in the, to land at to come and visit, unveiled spectacular images of volume, and soon the greatest to see even the extremely telescope e l t begins a new check to electronic tomorrow. Today, in 60 minutes on d, w, conflicts, crises was, every single connection mapped out shows that you can disagree odyssey be on the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. Now on youtube, the, this is, the domain is africa coming up on the program under the threat of atrocities and a food shortage. 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