Bordeaux 07/08/2023 at 12:42 CEST
Cyclists, unlike other athletes who lock themselves in their bubble, are pending details such as the one that apparently was worrying the Danish runner
To Miguel Indurain he never liked being called Miguelón. He hated that nickname, “My name is Miguel,” he used to say. He also did not like, in the beginning, being called Mikel: he was Miguel and the discussion is over.
Now that we live in an age where heroes of the Tourr are far from the territories that dominated cycling in the 20th century, mainly French, Spanish and Italian, the fantastic ones from countries like Slovenia (Tadej Pogacar) or Denmark (Jonas Vingegaard) arrive and here the problem of how to pronounce the names correctly appears.
Vingegaard He doesn’t live away from the real world. Cyclists, unlike other athletes who lock themselves in their bubble, are pending details such as the one that apparently was worrying the Danish runner. The way his name is pronounced in his country is not the same as in other parts of the world and, of course, in spain the en France -you only have to listen in these two cases to the pronunciation of the cycling narrators- Vingegaard they call him Vingegaard, just like it sounds with the a dragging the a a bit because there are two in his last name.
The reinvidication
Well, on Friday, at the end of the stage and as yellow jumper, had to attend the interview on French public television, which is the one that has the rights to broadcast the Tour and whose images serve the entire world. They asked her how to pronounce his name correctly and slowly, almost spelling, she said that Jonas era Jonas y Vingegaard should be said Finger strap; that is to say, that the a becomes o, because that is how it is said in Danish.
Con Tadej Pogacar something similar happens. If his name were translated into Spanish it would be Tadeo, but the jota in Slovenian becomes a Greek y while pocagar, like this in gross plan, it should be written as Pogachar, the same as his compatriot, absent from the Tour, Primoz Roglic should be pronounced more or less as Roglich Cousins. It’s complicated, but they want their names to be said correctly, just like their friends, family and even their local fans do.
De Hindley a John Wayne
The thing about Jai Hindley, who has won a Giro and was the yellow jersey of the Tour last Wednesday, is already more complicated because his name sounds like a greeting from bitter memories, although the kid is obviously not to blame and, in fact, We already have Anglo-Saxon names more by hand.
And that our grandparents, in a time when they did not exist none of the current entertainmentThey distracted themselves by watching Westerns or Western movies as they called them. They had their favorite actor, who was John Waynebut they always called him Yon Baine, just as it sounds, even if it was spelled and pronounced differently, so it will be difficult for us, from now on, to call Vingegaard as they do in Denmark and as he likes.
2023-07-08 11:00:43
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