Athletics at the European Championships 2022

[rafalgorka 1,808]

Silver for Belgium in 4x400 relay! Congrats for all our Belgian users 😉

[Jinzha 702]

Our 4x400m men are really nothing like their Tokyo versions anymore. I had hoped especially Ramsey Angela would grow more, like Bol and Klaver. And it doesn't help that Van Diepen isn't fully fit either.

[Makedonas 2,239]

9 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

I've seen at least four different versions of Stefanidi's first name - Ekaterini, Katerina, Aikaterini and one I forgot already

In Greek "ai" together make the "e" sound. So in Greek we spell it Aikaterini but pronounce it Ekaterini. However, everyone with that name uses Katerina informally. It's one of the most common female names and you'll never hear someone being called "Ekaterini" except in a formal/legal setting.

 

For example at the last Olympics we had "Ekaterini Stefanidi" in pole vault and "Aikaterini Divari" in sailing 

 

 

Stefanidi always went by "Ekaterini" and only recently I've seen her name listed as "Aikaterini." It seems each sport is different. We've had a bunch of rowers all always have their names listed as "Aikaterini" (Nikolaidou, Gkogkou, Zerva etc).

 

Another name where we see this is Despina/Despoina. On our Fed Cup team one year we had Despina Papamichail and Despoina Vogasari. Same name but "oi" together makes the "i" sound. So Despina is the correct pronunciation but we spell it Despoina in Greek.

 

And don't get me started with Ioannis vs Giannis or Georgios vs Giorgos 

[OlympicIRL 5,941]

I'm hoping our women's relay team can have a great race now.... maybe another national record but I'm probably hoping for too much. Still, come on girls

[Monzanator 4,798]

Adriana Vilagos 60.32 in round five and pushes Spotakova off the podium by 1 cm.

[Makedonas 2,239]

Is it confirmed that Vuleta is retiring? I thought she was retiring after the World Indoors in Belgrade but she's still around obviously.

 

It would be a big loss for Serbia as they don't have many top athletes in athletics, although Topic and Vilagos are big hopes for them.

[Grassmarket 4,085]

3 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

In Greek "ai" together make the "e" sound. So in Greek we spell it Aikaterini but pronounce it Ekaterini. However, everyone with that name uses Katerina informally. It's one of the most common female names and you'll never hear someone being called "Ekaterini" except in a formal/legal setting.

 

For example at the last Olympics we had "Ekaterini Stefanidi" in pole vault and "Aikaterini Divari" in sailing 

 

 

Stefanidi always went by "Ekaterini" and only recently I've seen her name listed as "Aikaterini." It seems each sport is different. We've had a bunch of rowers all always have their names listed as "Aikaterini" (Nikolaidou, Gkogkou, Zerva etc).

 

Another name where we see this is Despina/Despoina. On our Fed Cup team one year we had Despina Papamichail and Despoina Vogasari. Same name but "oi" together makes the "i" sound. So Despina is the correct pronunciation but we spell it Despoina in Greek.

I am guessing you get different transliterations in different western languages.  So Чехов can be Chekhov, Tchekoff, Tsjekov etc etc.

[Makedonas 2,239]

1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

I am guessing you get different transliterations in different western languages.  So Чехов can be Chekhov, Tchekoff, Tsjekov etc etc.

Also sometimes we see Russians as Sofia, Sofya, Sofiya, or Anastasia, Anastasiya etc

[hckošice 15,608]

just a fun fact, in CZE/SVK languages Világoš means get spanked, get a debacle or get scolded  

[Makedonas 2,239]

Wow amazing end to the women's javelin