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Really emphasising it rather than it just rolling off the tongue.
At least in Italian (which is all I know about) a lot of names are really emphasised - they don't mumble like us Brits. I think he does overdo it a bit, but he's basically better than all other cycling commentators I can think of for Italian except Friebe.
Ganna is a good example, he gets the emphasis right but just overcooks it a bit and makes it too aggressive, which makes it sound like he's showing off. Italian pronunciation for reference in the first few seconds of this:
https://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raiSport/media/Ganna-ad-un-passo-dal-podio-fc537305-3579-47ee-a1b2-7e798c870c6f.htmlTo be fair this varies in Italian, in the Veneto where I lived the accent is quite laid back so the pronunciation of a word like Ganna wouldn't be very aggressive but that's different elsewhere.
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I'm glad he makes the effort to pronounce names correctly, what grates me is that he says it in a way that sounds like you just asked him how it's pronounced. Really emphasising it rather than it just rolling off the tongue. Still better than getting the name wrong.