Orangehair43 177 Posted July 29, 2021 #61 Share Posted July 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, gubchandrolai said: https://www.google.com/amp/s/olympics.com/en/featured-news/swimming-james-guy-britain-five-things From India? Are you sure? Because seems like he might was a part of British colonial enterprise and have been in India at some point in his life, but never found that he was an Indian. The name George Guy - also doesn't sound Indian. He is what is known as Anglo Indian I believe. There often have English names but have partial native Indian ancestry. James’s Guy dad was on TV yesterday and is visiably of Partial Indian ancestry. My mum’s school best friend was of a similar background. gubchandrolai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubchandrolai 17 Posted July 29, 2021 #62 Share Posted July 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said: He is what is known as Anglo Indian I believe. There often have English names but have partial native Indian ancestry. James’s Guy dad was on TV yesterday and is visiably of Partial Indian ancestry. My mum’s school best friend was of a similar background. Okay okay, nice to know. Will be cheering more loudly in Mixed 4X100 Medley I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Bun 383 Posted July 29, 2021 #63 Share Posted July 29, 2021 The Garidova twins were both born in Ireland and have Azerbaijani parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajiv 25 Posted July 29, 2021 #64 Share Posted July 29, 2021 36 minutes ago, gubchandrolai said: Okay okay, nice to know. Will be cheering more loudly in Mixed 4X100 Medley I guess The captain of the Australian women's football team Sam Kerr is Anglo-Indian by origin gubchandrolai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,757 Posted July 29, 2021 #65 Share Posted July 29, 2021 1 hour ago, gubchandrolai said: Okay okay, nice to know. Will be cheering more loudly in Mixed 4X100 Medley I guess I suppose most Indians don't like to dwell on the colonial era much. Generally such families were engineers, railwaymen, miners & so on. British technicians who married Indian ladies, had families which obviously followed the father's name & came back to Blighty at some point post 1947. Those who stayed on just got absorbed back into the Indian side of their family. The exact same thing has been discussed on other threads here about Dutch Indonesians. The most famous Anglo-Indian is Cliff Richard, the singer. gubchandrolai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubchandrolai 17 Posted July 29, 2021 #66 Share Posted July 29, 2021 4 hours ago, rajiv said: The captain of the Australian women's football team Sam Kerr is Anglo-Indian by origin 3 hours ago, Grassmarket said: I suppose most Indians don't like to dwell on the colonial era much. Generally such families were engineers, railwaymen, miners & so on. British technicians who married Indian ladies, had families which obviously followed the father's name & came back to Blighty at some point post 1947. Those who stayed on just got absorbed back into the Indian side of their family. The exact same thing has been discussed on other threads here about Dutch Indonesians. The most famous Anglo-Indian is Cliff Richard, the singer. Looked up both and very interesting stories. In fact they have connections with Calcutta (now, Kolkata), the city where I grew up. Even Cliff Richard has a background story which is directly connected with my research, 'Direct Action Day'. Thank you rajiv and grassmarket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,757 Posted July 30, 2021 #67 Share Posted July 30, 2021 I think most people could work out that swimmer Siobhan Haughey has Irish origins, but I did not know that she is actually related to the former Irish Prime Minister* Charles Haughey - her great uncle. *Yes, I know, but let's keep things simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,246 Posted July 27, 2023 #68 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Michal Martikán ... (5 time Olympian - 5 time Olympic medalist - 2 G - 2 S - 1 B) 14 times World Champion, 23 WCH medals in total 14 times European Champion, 21 ECH medals in total 20 times World Cup winner, 42 Podiums in total (There only 5 WC races per year) 5 Times Overall World Cup winner (Which is still the record among M C1 paddlers) ... after failing to qualify for the National team (and thus fighting in the internal qualifier for the Olympics) is strongly intending to represent another country, he even wanted to qualify for Paris, but according ICF rules it is not possible to switch nationalities before November, so he can not start at the Worlds this year.. and yeah, the country, will be likely one of he apparently already started some discussion with these federations Source in svk https://sport.aktuality.sk/ostatne-sporty/clanok/michal-martikan-chce-reprezentovat-iny-stat-2023072706561051884 Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,555 Posted July 27, 2023 #69 Share Posted July 27, 2023 26 minutes ago, hckošice said: Michal Martikán ... (5 time Olympian - 5 time Olympic medalist - 2 G - 2 S - 1 B) 14 times World Champion, 23 WCH medals in total 14 times European Champion, 21 ECH medals in total 20 times World Cup winner, 42 Podiums in total (There only 5 WC races per year) 5 Times Overall World Cup winner (Which is still the record among M C1 paddlers) ... after failing to qualify for the National team (and thus fighting in the internal qualifier for the Olympics) is strongly intending to represent another country, he even wanted to qualify for Paris, but according ICF rules it is not possible to switch nationalities before November, so he can not start at the Worlds this year.. and yeah, the country, will be likely one of he apparently already started some discussion with these federations Source in svk https://sport.aktuality.sk/ostatne-sporty/clanok/michal-martikan-chce-reprezentovat-iny-stat-2023072706561051884 Austria is the interesting outlier there. The others are typical sportswashing countries, but....Austria? If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,860 Posted July 27, 2023 #70 Share Posted July 27, 2023 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: Austria is the interesting outlier there. The others are typical sportswashing countries, but....Austria? Austria are the comfortable nighbours...Bratislava to Vienna...just 20 mins drive from home (if it wasn't for traffic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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