Aug 30, 2013
William Araka is a long way from home - and he looks it. A beacon of colourful Kenyan attire adrift in a sea of tracksuited athletes, he sits down and drops his crutches to the floor - crutches to replace the large, wooden pole with which he supported his withered right leg when he first arrived. Araka, who says he is about 40 years old, is Kenya's lone paracanoeist at the sport's world championships in Duisburg, Germany. At home, he is a fisherman. Fishing is a career forced upon him by polio, which he says "attacked" him as a five-year-old.
BBC Sport: Kenyan fisherman beats polio and poverty to paddle with elite