Tonga's 'Bruno Banani' during a practice session at the FIL Luge World Championships in Cesana Pariol, Italy. 

When news surfaced in Germany of a promising young luger from Tonga who bore the same name as a racy German underwear firm, scepticism might have been warranted.
But the story was too delicious. Bruno Banani, 24, ostensibly the son of a coconut farmer, was aiming to be Tonga's first ever competitor at a winter Olympic games.
When Banani was unveiled to the German media, he was naturally sponsored by Bruno Banani, a purveyor of knickers from the east German city of Chemnitz. But now an investigation by Der Spiegel magazine has revealed that the plucky luger was in fact christened Bruno Banani by some opportunists at a marketing company in Leipzig. According to Spiegel, it seems that the young IT student who was picked for luge success was actually called Fuahea Semi, and marketing firm Makai somehow arranged for a passport to be issued for Semi in the name of Bruno Banani.