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Help[Opinions] Opinions on Olympic Medalist's Names Paris 2024: Archery
First, a general preface. I've been a member of this site for eons but never posted on the message boards or really even looked at them until now. I was looking for a famous Sakura to comment about on the name page today and came across Olympic gold medal skateboarder Sakura Yosozumi. That's when the wheels in my head started turning; what do the good folk of this site think of the names of various Olympic medalists? I'll start with Paris 2024, sport by sport, and work my way back to the beginning of the modern Olympics (with breaks for any current Olympic games occurring, depending on how long this little series goes on). What kind of trends will we see across time and nations? Will we like what we see? Let's find out, shall we?
Our first sport for Paris 2024 is Archery.
Men's individual
Gold: Kim Woo-jin, South Korea
Silver: Brady Ellison, USA
Bronze: Lee Woo-seok, South Korea
Men's team
Gold: South Korea (Kim Je-deok, Kim Woo-jin, Lee Woo-seok)
Silver: France (Baptiste Addis, Thomas Chirault, Jean-Charles Valladont)
Bronze: Turkey (Mete Gazoz, Berkim Tümer, Abdullah Yıldırmış)
Women's individual
Gold: Lim Si-hyeon, South Korea
Silver: Nam Su-hyeon, South Korea
Bronze: Lisa Barbelin, France
Women's team
Gold: South Korea (Jeon Hun-young, Lim Si-hyeon, Nam Su-hyeon)
Silver: China (An Qixuan, Li Jiaman, Yang Xiaolei)
Bronze: Mexico (Ángela Ruiz, Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez)
Mixed team
Gold: Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyeon, South Korea
Silver: Florian Unruh and Michelle Kroppen, Germany
Bronze: Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold, USA
A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." - Douglas Adams
Our first sport for Paris 2024 is Archery.
Men's individual
Gold: Kim Woo-jin, South Korea
Silver: Brady Ellison, USA
Bronze: Lee Woo-seok, South Korea
Men's team
Gold: South Korea (Kim Je-deok, Kim Woo-jin, Lee Woo-seok)
Silver: France (Baptiste Addis, Thomas Chirault, Jean-Charles Valladont)
Bronze: Turkey (Mete Gazoz, Berkim Tümer, Abdullah Yıldırmış)
Women's individual
Gold: Lim Si-hyeon, South Korea
Silver: Nam Su-hyeon, South Korea
Bronze: Lisa Barbelin, France
Women's team
Gold: South Korea (Jeon Hun-young, Lim Si-hyeon, Nam Su-hyeon)
Silver: China (An Qixuan, Li Jiaman, Yang Xiaolei)
Bronze: Mexico (Ángela Ruiz, Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez)
Mixed team
Gold: Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyeon, South Korea
Silver: Florian Unruh and Michelle Kroppen, Germany
Bronze: Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold, USA
A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." - Douglas Adams
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I'm not very familiar with Chinese or Korean names. I notice Woo- appears as a name element for men more than once and the same for women with -hyeon.
I notice Mete means hero/warrior which seems appropriate.
I don't like Brady or Casey.
My favorites are Thomas, Baptiste, Florian, and Alejandra.
I notice Mete means hero/warrior which seems appropriate.
I don't like Brady or Casey.
My favorites are Thomas, Baptiste, Florian, and Alejandra.
Good to meet you. And Olympic names are a good idea.
The Korean names are all hyphenated, with only the first letter capitalised. Chinese names also look like compounds, but are written as one word. And the Frenchman, Jean-Charles, gets a hyphen and two upper-case initials, but the Mexican woman is just Ana Paula; two words, no hyphen. Very interesting. And all three Mexicans coincidentally have the initial A.
I don't like Brady, though it's amusing that he had a rhyming partner in the Mixed team, Casey. Also in the Mixed is my very favourite name of all: the wonderful Florian Unruh! I imagine a field of flowers, shaking angrily in a high wind.
The Korean names are all hyphenated, with only the first letter capitalised. Chinese names also look like compounds, but are written as one word. And the Frenchman, Jean-Charles, gets a hyphen and two upper-case initials, but the Mexican woman is just Ana Paula; two words, no hyphen. Very interesting. And all three Mexicans coincidentally have the initial A.
I don't like Brady, though it's amusing that he had a rhyming partner in the Mixed team, Casey. Also in the Mixed is my very favourite name of all: the wonderful Florian Unruh! I imagine a field of flowers, shaking angrily in a high wind.