Olympic summer games 2024 name sightings

General Name Discussion
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Thought this would be interesting! I think the Olympics are a treasure trove of names with people from all over! I’ll start!

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Sanoa - Canadian surfer

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Great idea! I’ve seen so many names, but felt like it would be overwhelming to post in the regular Name Sightings thread haha.

Great [name_m]Britain[/name_m] Swimming :swimming_woman:t2:
[name_f]Freya[/name_f] [name_f]Constance[/name_f], 20 (fn & mn, both appeared in the screen when they showed her before her race)

Team USA Swimming :swimming_woman:t2:
[name_f]Gretchen[/name_f] (!), 21 Her sister is [name_m]Alex[/name_m], short for [name_f]Alexandra[/name_f], and was also an Olympic swimmer before
[name_f]Torri[/name_f], 21

Team USA Men’s Gymnastics :man_cartwheeling:t6:
[name_m]Asher[/name_m], 20
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m], 20 (“Freddy”, at least according to his teammates)
[name_m]Stephen[/name_m], 25
[name_m]Paul[/name_m], 23
[name_m]Brody[/name_m], 24

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[name_f]Kerith[/name_f], female commentator for NBC

Japan Women’s Basketball :basketball: :jp:
[name_f]Saori[/name_f]
[name_f]Saki[/name_f]
[name_f]Evelyn[/name_f]

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Starting tomorrow, I’ll try to do a bigger list at the end instead of so many in a day haha!

[name_f]Ewa[/name_f] & [name_m]Jozef[/name_m], Paul’s parents who are Polish
[name_f]Serena[/name_f], Brody’s fiance side note: I thought they said she was his dad’s fiance at first, and I was highly concerned because she looked so young :sweat_smile: [name_f]Glad[/name_f] she’s the athlete’s fiance

Women’s Swimming :swimming_woman:t2:
[name_f]Iona[/name_f], Australia :australia:
[name_f]Ingrid[/name_f], [name_f]Canada[/name_f] :canada:

[name_f]Zora[/name_f], female NBC commentator for men’s gymnastics

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The most intriguing names from the list of Croatian athletes competing this year:

[name_m]Aurel[/name_m] (b)
[name_m]Jere[/name_m] (prn. yeh-reh)
[name_m]Konstantin[/name_m]
[name_m]Loren[/name_m] (b)
[name_m]Miran[/name_m]
[name_f]Palma[/name_f]
[name_m]Rino[/name_m]
Valent
[name_f]Veron[/name_f] (b)

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Spotted a Greek swimmer named Apostolos yesterday! How incredible is that?!

I don’t know how common Apostolos is in Greece, but maybe some berries from there can weigh in!

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[name_f]An[/name_f] Indonesian [name_m]Archer[/name_m] Diananda

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[name_m]Just[/name_m] thought I’d add here that many of the athletes have an audio of their name pronunciation on their official Olympics website pages! Going down the rabbit hole now…

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Cool! Is that on the IOC’s website or their individual country’s sites? I am so interested!

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Women’s Gymnastics :woman_cartwheeling:t5:
[name_f]Flavia[/name_f], Brasilian gymnast :brazil::3rd_place_medal:
Evionn, sister of US gymnast [name_f]Suni[/name_f] [name_m]Lee[/name_m] :us::medal_sports: Suni’s full name is [name_f]Sunisa[/name_f]

Swimming :man_swimming:t2:
[name_f]Summer[/name_f] & [name_f]Autumn[/name_f], theme-named sisters of US swimmer [name_m]Robert[/name_m] “Bobby” Finke :us::2nd_place_medal: During his race, [name_f]Summer[/name_f] was taking the bar exam to become a lawyer and [name_f]Autumn[/name_f] was doing a live national interview. Both swam competitively growing up too.

Women’s 3x3 Basketball :basketball:
Dearica, USA :us:
[name_m]Rhyne[/name_m], USA :us:
[name_f]Cierra[/name_f], USA :us:
[name_f]Svenja[/name_f], [name_f]Germany[/name_f] :de:
[name_f]Elisa[/name_f], [name_f]Germany[/name_f] :de:
[name_f]Sonja[/name_f], [name_f]Germany[/name_f] :de:

Men’s 3x3 Basketball :basketball:
Jimmer, USA :us:
[name_m]Canyon[/name_m], USA :us:
[name_m]Kareem[/name_m], USA :us:
Dejan, Serbia :serbia:
[name_m]Marko[/name_m], Serbia :serbia:
Mihailo, Serbia :serbia:
Strahinja, Serbia :serbia:

Men’s [name_m]Beach[/name_m] Volleyball :volleyball:
[name_m]Miles[/name_m], USA :us:
[name_m]Yorick[/name_m], Netherlands :netherlands:

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I should have been more specific — it’s here! If you click on an athlete, it should have a little audio icon next to their name.

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Illiya- Ukrainian men’s gymnast in the artistic gymnastics all around final

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Canoeing : canoe slalom/kayak cross/canoe sprints

Women’s

Evy :us: :3rd_place_medal:!! First us canoe slalom medal for any gender or event in 20 years

Eva Alina :slovenia: (Whose younger brother is apparently Ziga which is pretty cool)

Zuzana :slovakia:

Miren :es:

Monica Doria :andorra:

Marjorie :fr:

Corinna :austria:

Linnea :sweden:

Kincso :hungary:

Maialen :es:

Yarisleidis :cuba:

Liudmyla :ukraine:

Noemie :australia:

Begona :es:

Esti :south_africa:

Hedda :de:

Mens

Titouan :fr:

Grzegorz :poland: brothers Mathus

Catalin :romania:

Ghailene :tunisia:

Mathis :morocco:

Sideris :de:

Hamish :new_zealand:

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Women’s Triathlon :running_woman:t3:
[name_f]Flora[/name_f], :bermuda: [name_f]Bermuda[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassandre[/name_f], :fr: France​:medal_sports:

Men’s Gymnastics :person_cartwheeling:t4:
[name_f]Illia[/name_f], Ukraine :ukraine:
[name_m]Oleg[/name_m], Ukraine :ukraine:
[name_m]Diogo[/name_m], [name_m]Brasil[/name_m] :brazil:
[name_m]Felix[/name_m], :canada: [name_f]Canada[/name_f]

Women’s Swimming :swimming_woman:t2:
[name_f]Mollie[/name_f], :uk: Great [name_m]Britain[/name_m]
[name_f]Shayna[/name_f] :australia: Australia, I actually knew a [name_f]Shayna[/name_f] growing up!
[name_f]Moesha[/name_f] :australia: Australia
Marrit :netherlands: Netherlands, pronouncedmarr-it
[name_f]Helena[/name_f] :denmark: [name_m]Denmark[/name_m]
[name_f]Airi[/name_f] :jp: Japan
Satomi :jp: Japan
Yufei :cn: [name_f]China[/name_f]
Anastasiia :fr: France​:2nd_place_medal:
[name_f]Siobhan[/name_f] [name_f]Bernadette[/name_f] :hong_kong: [name_f]Hong[/name_f] Kong
[name_f]Simona[/name_f] :it: [name_f]Italy[/name_f]
[name_f]Francesca[/name_f] :it: [name_f]Italy[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatriz[/name_f] :brazil: [name_m]Brasil[/name_m]
[name_f]Leonie[/name_f] :de: [name_f]Germany[/name_f]
[name_f]Kotryna[/name_f] :lithuania: Lithuania
[name_f]Mona[/name_f] :ireland: [name_f]Ireland[/name_f]

Men’s Swimming :man_swimming:t2:
[name_m]Hugo[/name_m] :es: Spain

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US Women’s Football (soccer)
[name_f]Alyssa[/name_f]
[name_f]Crystal[/name_f]
[name_f]Lindsey[/name_f]
Tierna
[name_f]Emily[/name_f]
[name_m]Casey[/name_m]
[name_f]Rose[/name_f]
[name_f]Catarina[/name_f]
[name_f]Mallory[/name_f]
[name_f]Naomi[/name_f]
[name_f]Jenna[/name_f]
[name_m]Korbin[/name_m]
[name_m]Sam[/name_m]
[name_f]Trinity[/name_f]
[name_f]Sophia[/name_f]
[name_m]Jaedyn[/name_m]

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Women’s skateboarding!

Boipelo :south_africa:

Roos :netherlands:

Yasmin :es:(tore her acl and won’t be competing, replaced by 15 yo Daniela who killed it and literally arrived 2 days ago)

Lucie :fr:

Rayssa :brazil: “eye-eesa” “ray-sa”? The commentators have pronounced like 5 different ways but this is the most common checked the audio link (thanks @Audreymb ) it’s hi-eesa

Keet :netherlands: sounds exactly like Kate very cool name

Coco :jp:

Poe :us:

Funa :jp:

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I only watched the first heat for the men’s skateboarding too

Men’s street skateboarding

Jhancarlos :colombia: “Jhank”

[name_m]Kelvin[/name_m] :brazil:

[name_m]Jagger[/name_m] :us: whose brothers are apparently [name_m]Jett[/name_m] and Cosman

[name_m]Aurelian[/name_m] :fr:

Cordano :us:

[name_m]Hampus[/name_m] :sweden:

[name_m]Keefer[/name_m] :australia: :sweat_smile:

Riso :slovakia: kinda love this

Some more women’s too

[name_f]Emilie[/name_f] :fr:

[name_f]Aya[/name_f] :morocco:

[name_f]Lola[/name_f] :uk:

[name_f]Nana[/name_f] :fr:

[name_f]Fay[/name_f] :canada:

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Women’s artistic gymnastics all-around

[name_f]Elsabeth[/name_f] black :canada:
[name_f]Manila[/name_f] Esposito :it:
[name_f]Simone[/name_f] Biles (ofc) :us:

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Men’s single scull semi-final A/B 1

Arakawa Ryuta :jp:
Giedrius Bieliauskas :lithuania:

Men’s single scull semi-final A/B 2

Stefanos Ntouskos :greece:
Damir Martin :croatia:
Yauheni Zalaty (individual neutral athlete)
Sverri Nielsen :denmark:
Mihai Chiruta :chad:

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