I must admit the title of the thread put me off, but now that I'm in here I see that it's a vey respectful discussion.
On Boston, the mispronunciations were inexcusable IMO. But it was the host federation's or the ISU's responsibility to ensure IMO that the announcer had a listing with phonetic pronunciations.
As a volunteer, I've done the announcing at local and regional competitions, and it can be very hard to figure out pronunciations because the transliteration rules for latinizing names in many cases produce unphonetic names for English speakers. Some of the competitions ask for entrants to provide a phonetic version of their names when they register. It really makes it so much easier to avoid egregious errors.
Some might see it as just a problem of Anglophone arrogance, but sincerely it's a challenge even for someone multilingual like me. Some of the transcriptions to the Latin alphabet come through other European languages which can make it hard to figure out. For example, I'm fluent in French, but Vietnamese names transliterated into French stump me. Cyrillic can be brought into the Latin alphabet using three different systems, but they aren't ideal. The international hockey authorities developed their own simplified phonetic transcription system after Russian NHL players protested they're being required to use versions of their names that led to constant mispronunciation.
She's such a a beautiful girl and her skating had a lovely style. I hope Tugba has a beautiful meaning in Turkish to suit her much better.
Sorry if I offended by saying I felt her name was odd.
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