The best names from the Olympics

So the Olympics are almost over and I will most definitely be sad to see it go, productivity however will increase two fold and now I look forward to the ‘blooper’ compilations from this year. No not to make fun of someone’s misfortune but just for a laugh – trust me, I wish I had all my greatest tumbles on tape.

So keeping with the funnier and ‘lite’ side to the Olympics, I have had such fun with so many of the names of the Athletes – and I’m from South Africa where Honesty and Elvis are common names. Even though my name is somewhat normal I have always had trouble with people saying Sam is a boys name and replying ‘Dear Sir’ in all my emails, so I have particularly enjoyed the great names at the Olympics.

So here are some my favourites from these Olympics – I hope the next one brings even better names.

1.     Endurance Abinuwa. It’s even funnier that she is a runner; I wouldn’t like my chances running against her.

2.     Rusian Albegov from Russia. I believe his mothers name was Original.

3.     Aleksandra Aleksandrov is not only a male rower from Azerbaijan but also a male boxer from Bulgaria. What are the chances?

4.     There are an astounding 21 athletes with the surname ‘Chen’ from China alone.

5.     20 athletes with the surname Wang.

6.     17 Jungs and 9 Lee’s in South Korea alone. The phone book must be confusing.

7.     Taiwan claims 15 Changs while table tennis has 7 Lee’s.

8.     I know Ning Ding from china had trouble at school.

9.     Definitely the most apt for their sport is Equestrian rider Rich Fellas.

10. The eternally confused Mexican athlete German Sanchez Sanchez.

11. Mark Anthony from Oz and Chris Brown from the Bahamas’ are now trying their hand at the Olympics.

12. Unfortunate…plain and simple: Destinee Hooker and Brent Newdick.

13. Yuu Suk Kim probably suffers from self-esteem issues.

14. The most surprising name to come out of Australia being Miao Miao

15. The gold medal for the athlete with the longest name goes to 

    ‘Aleksandra J Klejnowska-Krzywanska’.

16. Yoshi Takeshita – I’m still laughing at this one.

17. And lastly my personal favourite Indonesian weightlifter ‘Deni’ just rolls with one name. Hey if Madonna, Prince and Ronaldo can do why cant Deni?

Please add the ones you loved, I am sure I have missed a few greats.

Till the next Olympics

Yours truly,

Stu