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And make sure that we cover so much in training and trainers ourself to achieve this. we train you. welcome to southern hungary for the 2019 canoe sprint world championships. we are all set for what's likely to be a scorching few days of action. to reach the olympics, pita needs to progress not only through the heats and the semifinals but reach the final and finish in the top five. realistically, that's going to be pretty tough in his debut, so he's hoping effectivelyjust to finish without falling in. you can do a bit of swimming, i hear. i've been swimming nonstop since i got in these things...

Than you thought it would be? it's so much tougher than i thought. fortunately, the international canoe federation run crash courses around world championships. that meant a rather busy week for an international kayaker turned coach. no, no. i mean, sorry. when you start usually in hungary, you are a smaller kid. afterwards, you have a long time — ten years to catch up but you already have co—ordination from the other sports and you also have muscles to speed up. you just need to learn it in a shorter way, to make it the harder way, for sure. i think he expected it to be tough but the good...

Is canoeing, something that is aligned with our history as a polynesian. i want to be the first olympian in the modern era to qualify in three unrelated olympian sports, and so i thought, whoa, tae kwon do is my sport but i love being on the water and i love the physicality of pushing myself to the limit. i feel the canoeing gene is in my blood but i've never learned how to do it. to do it in one year, i believe anything can be done. tell us about the setup you have here? that's not quite the professional kayak but it's a start. here in tonga we use anything we have, so we have a two—man rec...

Back a medalfor tonga. by pita's own admission, qualifying for the olympics in canoeing is his biggest challenge yet but history making has become something of a habit for him in recent years. from what i've witnessed here, if anyone can achieve a near impossible and qualify for a third straight olympics in a third different sport, it's the modern day tongan warrior. hello there. we are moving into the last full week of august and i think at times it is going to feel as if autumn has arrived early. we are going to have another bout of wind and rain as we head through this week. and it is going...

I want to be the first 0lympian in the modern era to qualify in three unrelated 0lympian sports, and so i thought, whoa, tae kwon do is my sport but i love being on the water and i love the physicality of pushing myself to the limit. i feel the canoeing gene is in my blood but i've never learned how to do it. to do it in one year, i believe anything can be done. tell us about the setup you have here? that's not quite the professional kayak but it's a start. here in tonga we use anything we have, so we have a two—man recreational kayak. our equipment isn't going to help us get to the games bu...