was coming down and doing a good job and he was finishing so we said lets go for itreaction to the strategy has been mixed some observers like thomas bach the president of the international olympic committee were skeptical he called it a perverse marketing idea in a published interview two years ago ihle pointed out that the marriage of athlete and product was hardly a novel one although even he would admit that usually the product is named after the athlete and not the other way around he also noted that athletes and entertainers changed their names to seem more marketable all the timewithin the athletic community banani the luger has been welcomed part of that is because of his natural humbleness banani said it came from his awareness of how fortunate he was after all he said he was studying computer science and playing rugby with his friends most days when he suddenly fell into a new job and after consulting with his family a new namethe fastest you can drive a car in tonga is 70 kilometers per hour or about 40 miles per hour banani said through a smile on wednesday i love speed i know that i will be able to go faster than that herebanani is trained by a german coach isabel barschinski who worked with makai from the beginning of the casting call she calls him bruno as everyone does these days barschinski helped banani channel his natural athletic ability into shrewdness on the track banani moved to germany to train and he and barschinski now have a partnership with the german luge program that has helped bananis progress even morein 2010 banani nearly qualified for the vancouver games but narrowly missed out after a bad crash in this olympic cycle he qualified for the sochi games at a race in december after a 28thplace finish out of 42 lugers in park city utahwhile banani may not be as fast as his namesake the garments were called the fastest underpants in the world after a 2002 stunt in which the company put them in a particle accelerator he does not hide his joy about achieving a goal that even his coach thought might be unrealistici wasnt sure this was possible barschinski said but bruno has learned very quickly and that shows how hard he is willing to workbananis first official run will come saturday his sister is traveling to russia to watch him compete and banani said he planned to stay for the rest of the olympics after the luge competition was finished to soak in the experiencehe does not yet know what he will do afterward he would like to continue competing he said but if his sponsorship agreement is not renewed then he will most likely return to tonga and try to find a job in computersone thing he will not do however is change his name againthis is the name that makes history in tonga he said why would i