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so you know what it’s that lively
greenhouse
have a dream so at this time of
more crisis in sleep
we only think about it when we get up
in the morning my dream to dream
it can be very much for you
to be the other for you
me I had a dream since
I was very small
it was going to the Olympics
would no longer be as
voluntary
as a technician as
competitor but I went there in
as an arbiter I was the first
African woman officiated games
Olympic
it was rio in 2016
it’s true I said them earlier I had
a dream but I started from nothing
I had nothing I had just my degree
engineer in logistics and transport
allende hp and I was lucky in
this school to which I have
attended rather than meet a
angel an angel who had come down from the sky
they had come just for me I
thought
he is no longer today he is
decided it’s been a year exactly but
today I understand why he
had truly become for me
I’m sure that from where he is
think of me
he looks after me they continue to
support and he can then bend down
is called below series
but this series had great patience
it was taekwondo it was his
wealth its greater wealth and
thanks to him I knew the pai points
I spent the fears every day
I have you I was attending his classes I was
only girl in the taekwondo club
but I was not scared
so I could spend first dan 2nd dan
3rd dan 4th dan 5th dan thanks to him
am the one you see today and
thanks to him one morning I told myself
to not become referees
it’s true I had done the competition
I had a brief career in
competitor
I had a gold medal in passing and
I’ve decided
thank you I decided all of a sudden to
change because do you see yourself doing
a career in the competition must
to have the size you see I have
heels it’s not my true size
I already had a disability it was a
fence
what did I do
this barrier in the advantage the size
at shell small size I am at
gilles so I can become a referee so
I always stay in the field of
competition but not as to
key not as a fighter so I
became a referee
and that’s where it all started
I said to myself ok live national is
alright but why not go over
far
I needed to stand out
other national referees who were
there men like women
me he read me there I had to be
better than I thought why not
to become an international referee I have not
was scared but I said it’s a
challenge during that will be possible
because I was a woman
around me there were only
men I was very young
all national referees in hill
of ivory he was of a certain age
so obviously he was a priority
if it was necessary to go to present the text
international referees
so I had no chance
how is it going to be possible for me
and then the circumstances there
circumstance by have been favorable
and everything came together easily
do you see the Ivorian federation of
taekwondo that normally presents the
national referees at the seminar
international referees
unfortunately not afforded this
year there submit referees
national
so everyone had to take
charge
okay okay I remember that then I get
informs a little I discover that the
next referees’ seminar
international organizations should be
bamako mali
second point close to me that
could have been anywhere in China
in Japan in Canada
that would require me a lot of ways
because I had to leave by my
own means and I learn that it is
in Bamako, Mali
ok ok my name is emmanuel so
played with me we continue then
what do I mean by that
I hear I’m learning there is a promotion
on air tickets air mali good
ok ok that sape repeats the chance
so it was decided it was necessary that
I go there
I take my ticket and I jump in the
dance on the plane I go to Bamako
was not wrong because I am
income with the referee diploma
international known size better
I came back with the title of the
first Ivorian woman lives
International Ivory Coast
it was my first big victory
I did not want to stop there
I say ok live national abyss
international okay that’s fine
but why not become a referee
Olympic this best-of-level level see you
Believe me this is the top level every
even sportsmen of a thing to go to
olympic games ok I said everything to
the hour that since little I dreamed
to go to the Olympic Games
and suddenly that’s all
opened in front of me there was this
opportunity but it only needed
thirty referees around the world
participate in the Olympics and we
was at least twenty thousand trees and
in the world
for me is that it helps him
here are some other barriers
it was necessary to take at most three
African referees that we were
thousands in Africa s candidate for
to go to the Olympic Games
and one morning we say intersecting I know
more in Moscow to grouping together
referees of the best referees
international of the world so the 1200
best opinion is that I get the
mail me and manuela the fidh
kouassikro I feel from the coast
of ivory imagine you passicos it’s
like a grain of sand on the door to
the forgiveness map of the world so how
could I be in
this list
ok ok
so I ask a little bit of a bit
everywhere because the federation has
it’s not always obvious in those
people of good will month and
thresholds there i ‘m going to take my
ticket i left to man
and take care of 1200 candidates from
1200 candidates forgiveness one should only
take that 50
and at nearly 50 go to 30 of the 1200
we say to Africans
at best not
a Moroccan secondly a south
African
after we say an Ivorian
not two Ivorian drill so I
jumped to the ceiling is that so much
galls versus elsewhere i call them
lyrics it’s important he told me
listen to my daughter
we support you we are with you we know
that his suitcase and I did not hesitate I
went to see my mother my boss
she’s here in the room I told her
listen to the aisne he could have is
warned and
I had a dream it was to go to
Olympic Games
and so it would not be necessary that the work
be a brake for me so you have to
rather encourage it said there no
problem I support you we are together
I’ll cover you that’s how yes
you have to ask it, it’s there it’s
as well as sometimes on Friday at
noon or 5 pm I take my suitcase
I go to the airport after having
worked hard like everyone else I’m
go to the competition to get the
next morning around 6 am
morning I hardly sleep on the plane
I arrive on the competition all
tired as soon as I finish sunday
or on monday I take the plane
I arrive in Abidjan around 4 hours
in the morning and I change to the airport
and I come to the office I work that
asked me a lot of organizations
because to arrive
to this end it takes courage
a lot of determination
it takes perseverance and
frankly when I look for that
I had to do
I think it’s important and the
tingle of tide allowed to learn
Several things
self-control courage
the courtesy to untangle them and all
the values I had in you
push to be the one you see
currently
but it’s not over I was retained
in the lot of the top 50 referees he
had to take now 30
and as the boss had given the ok
you do all those trips
I traveled like that all the time
for two years it was tiring
work pays less work taekwondo
no personal life no life
private
I had nothing for the savings
were gone but I still had the
faith
I had to go with you
realize my dreams had to I pray
get married because there was never
of inhabitants finally Olympic Africa and
I had to be first and
I have dark I have not hesitated and therefore
after all this trip as
I’m here a moment ago one evening
at night in the said Tuesday to
around 4 am I get
an email in which one announces that I
am selected or go to games
Olympic Games
I called I called everyone
I called my father who was sleeping cydia
I call the mother country Boss I call
no answer I call that beats
series he was the only one to land
he won he was very happy
he said really and manu there I tell you
thank you because thanks to you I was able
live this dream with you
so what I want to tell you
today is that to achieve its
dreams
you have to live your dreams first but
to achieve would be to do a lot of
sacrifices
I have a lot of time g & g his daughter
a lot of things like I say your
turn I had no personal life I
could have the latest wig to
fashion the latest handbags
scratched
but all the savings all that
I had it was for my sport
it was to be able to reach my
purpose be able to go to rio
and I got there why not you
so to summarize all that I had
to tell you
to be able to live one’s dreams one must
first to have dream is the first
things you have to have a dream it is
important to have a dream a life without
nothing is a life fast
I had a dream it was
go to rio
then must we have what will
I told myself I want
I wanted to go to Rio it’s true
today I have something else in mind
but at the time I wanted to go to
rio i said to myself i want i got
given the necessary means in
staying true to my values and my
pronounced sense of ethics this is very
important
I had this desire to shut up on the
beginning of charges started to discuss
to exchange to understand what
it was that taekwondo
then it takes courage a lot of
courage
as I say I traveled I trimmed
I suffered but I do not have
abandoned
so I did it all that’s it
a little boy but hey I’m a
woman but hey it’s not complicated
then perseverance
persevere
nothing is easy in life will have
always failures those who have me
preceded logical then the hardest
is not to fail and get up
when you fall then you have to go every time
go further and then I mean
the purpose of all this is
achievement accomplishment
it’s all we had implemented for
power can call the goal that you
are you fixing me my applause
that was it
valerio so here you see you
see I’m here in the middle with on the
rio carpet is so never the dream
you have the will the courage and the
perseverance so researchers I you
invites
frankly I would not say follow my
example
but if it can inspire you that
allow you to live fully
dreams while staying true to the values
it’s very important and ethical
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