Cyclist name pronounciations

[theyoungest]

No need to be overly pedantic. They're pronouncing it the English way, they're not commentating in Italian.

Exactly. Or do you want them to say the Tour arrives in Pah-REE?

 

[boomcie]

Some of the belgian names are added under the language flemish on the site but should they instead be added simply under dutch? Would there be a huge diffrence in pronounciation of those names? I know this has been discussed before, that flemish is just a dialect of dutch, but the site seems to make a distinction between them at least.

If you listen to the "Björn Leukemans" recording, that is horribly done by a dutch speaker... Especially the "Björn" part, it just makes me feel sick . So yeah, in some cases the distinction is relevant. The same guy butchered Vanthourenhout's name.

Also props to the person that did Nibali, that voice really was hilarious.

 

[M Sport]

Exactly. Or do you want them to say the Tour arrives in Pah-REE?

Let's take in baby steps ok. Lets get them started by getting the country name France correct first before we start on the city pronunciations.

 

[lancaster]

I've had the pleasure of an Italian commentator saying "Laurence Dalaglio" sounded beautiful, and probably correct (as it is an Italian name) but hilariously different to how he says it himself.

as a general rule i do think that places and people should always be referred to in the native accent although the result is often less than ideal.
but for example, the city is called "Milano", so we should probably call it that.

just my tuppence