It's also interesting that we don't do this to European names that have English translations, like Christopher Huselius and Michael Kiprusoff.
And how do you get from Deutschland to Germany? Is the pronunciation in German that different than ours? I know Polish is pretty goofy when compared to English, maybe it's something like that.
This is also interesting during the Olympics, it seems people never know which name for cities to use. Like in 2006 some networks went with Torino, and others stuck with Turin.
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