Friday, June 1, 2012

ESPN's Samantha Steele mistakens National Spelling Bee winner Snigdha Nandipati for another female contestant

A young girl named Snigdha Nandipati won the National Spelling Bee on ESPN last night by correctly spelling out the word "guetapens."

Unfortunately for ESPN reporter Samantha Steele, she wanted to present the trophy to another female contestant instead because she thought that contestant was Nandipati. Check out the funny video below as well as the video of Nandipati spelling out "guetapens."

If you think spelling "guetapens" is difficult, try spelling the winner's full name.




3 comments:

  1. The spelling bee is a prestigious contest and nationally followed and broadcast. Recently Anand was engaged in a thrilling match against Gelfand and most Indians were not watching. Should we not telecast national chess or quiz contests in order to make them popular? Maybe some olympiads too. I find it rather amusing that Indians have to follow what desiKids are doing in the US. Maybe someone can enlighten me about some nationally followed contest of analogous nature, not musiCcontests or IndianIdols.

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