Marie-Renie Le: It was my season. The sport's balletic arm . When Surya Bonaly started her ice skating career in the early 1990s, she was the only skater of color at many events in Europe. Jad Abumrad: I'm Jab Abu mrad. Tonya Harding: I was like, "How did you do that?". Sandra Bezic: Hi. Latif Nasser: Well I asked her. TV Announcers: An unlikely place to find a world-class figure skater. When the French international figure skater stepped onto the ice in the 1990s, the skating field was overwhelmingly white. TV Announcers: For France, here is Surya Bonaly. Linsigne de Chevalier de lordre de la Lgion dhonneur, dcern lancien athlte franais deux jours plus tard, tait un cadeau inestimable du peuple franais. Tracie Hunte: Well, after a couple years of getting these kinds of marks, she does some soul searching. Valieva est incontestablement au centre de lattention aux Jeux de Pkin, mais elle nest pas la seule attirer lattention sur les quadruples sauts en patinage artistique fminin. Tracie Hunte: Out of the picture. Dans cette vido on vous parle de l'histoire de Surya Bonaly , l'une des plus grandes championne franaise du patinage artistique.Championne avant gardiste d. Latif Nasser: Afterwards, a lot of people interpreted that back flip as a big fat middle finger up to the entire skating world. Surya Bonaly a avou Ouest-France en 2015 quelle se sentait vraiment dpasse par la douleur. [crosstalk 00:08:04] I'm just saying that we making up stories because you want to hear them. Tracie Hunte: You get points for trying. TV Announcers: She competed for France in 1994 and just missed the podium. TV Interviewers: Did you deserve the gold medal Surya? Latif Nasser: Yeah, you can watch the YouTube videos from that period, and it's like she's a different skater. Latif Nasser: She would do all kinds of other jumps that weren't even allowed in competition. Latif Nasser: And she would attack everything. Matt Kielty: But she never wins? Next skater. Games Participations 3. It was just one of the best skates of her life. Surya Bonaly, 2010.jpg 821 1,125; 130 KB. What could happen if somebody with unrivaled athleticism and no aversion to risk was willing to go after it? It's probably my last competition, I don't want to just retire like that. Tracie Hunte: Oksana Bayul got gold-, TV Announcers: Nancy Kerrigan is physically-, Tracie Hunte: Nancy Kerrigan got silver, Chen Lu got the bronze, and fourth place was Surya. Latif Nasser: But clearly there were some times where it got to her. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Ctait comme, H, je peux faire des triples, alors quelle est la prochaine ? Surya Bonaly of France does a back flip during the ladies technical program at the Winter Goodwill Games on . You were really terrific. L'Amour est dans le pr . And that is our sport, which leads to Surya. I improved like every week, every month you can see a difference. More information about Sloane at www.sloane.org. Elvis Stojko: Like say a Tonya Harding-style skating. TV Announcers: We're here live at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning in Japan. I was just trying to be happy. Tracie Hunte: I'm just not lucky. French? Tracie Hunte: They were also-. Between my legs and my achilles, I was a disaster. Robert Krulwich: Don't you think that that's a little unsportsmanlike? Travaux TER en cours. Surya Bonaly: Especially for ladies, they like to keep the girls pretty. Latif Nasser: Oh, that's called the Bonaly? Latif Nasser: Was this all going through your mind as you were skating? But, I can kind of see where he was going because what he was trying to do, was that he was trying to present her to the world as this radically new kind of skater. Surya Bonaly: I thought, it's still sport, sports mean challenge. And it was just so depressing, and it was not fair. xhr.send(payload); And that makes someone like Surya much more vulnerable. Jad Abumrad: And does she quit at this point? She was athletic. Damn. Surya says, you know, at that age she really didn't know too much about what was going on. Jad Abumrad: Before we get started, wondering if we could ask your help on a little something. Johnette Howard: They want these people to look like little ballerinas but leap into these jumps like predators. "I've been in Las Vegas since end of 1999," she told CY Interview in 2020. TV Announcers: -years old from Nice in the south of France. Whipping around, Bonaly landed on one blade which was an Olympic first that no one has dared to match. Devenue la premire femme russir un quadruple saut aux Jeux olympiques, qui ont eu lieu pendant la comptition par quipe. Surya Bonaly: Pretty good, thanks. Latif Nasser: Again, that's Sandra Bezic. So, how did you first get into skating? She had it all. Robert Krulwich: So, she doesn't get high scores? Latif Nasser: Starts her program-. She's not elegant. Mostly it was not fair. TV Announcers: And she finishes her program with her back to the judges. Jad Abumrad: She competed in the World Championships in 1995, the very next year and she came in second. Didier Gailhagu: White. Latif Nasser: Injuries, and some turned pro and stuff, but whatever. Tracie Hunte: Immediately starts with this double axel. Bonaly participated in three Winter Olympics, and though she never medalled at the Games, she is still considered one of the greats from the sport, as the five-time European champion and winner of three silver medals in the World Figure Skating Championships. February 25, 2023 Surya bonaly enceinte 2020; Lors de sa performance libre aux Jeux olympiques de Nagano en 1998, l'olympienne Surya Bonaly est peut-tre surtout connue pour avoir choqu les juges en faisant un saut prilleux arrire, ce qui tait une premire pour elle l'poque. Ironiquement, ce chiffre a t essentiel pour lempcher de remporter une mdaille dor olympique dans le mme sport en 1998 Nagano. Produced by Matt Kielty with help from Tracie Hunte. You will see significant upgrades in-store and online this year. That's okay. Now it's down to the judges as to whether the gold medal belongs to Sato of Japan or Bonaly of France. I swear, it's like an earthquake. Our content is fact checked by our senior editorial staff to reflect accuracy and ensure our readers get They've been forced to shutter over safety hazards. "Sans lui, sans elle " ralis par Claude Couderc - Dargoole cerca e cataloga i video presenti sui pi famosi portali di video sharing del Web. Quite frankly, Yuka Sato is an amazing skater. There are rules, whereas there aren't these rules when it comes to beauty. As a Black skater competing in the late eighties and nineties, she is still cited as a prominent example of how racism and figure skating conventions affect . Sandra Bezic: No, no, no, no. Artistic impression. Tracie Hunte: Johnette Howard, that ESPN writer-, Tracie Hunte: She says that the first thing you've got to know, and this will take a quick little dive into the weirdo world of figure skating-. What is that about? En 2015, elle accorde sa confiance nos confrres : Comme le montre le fait que jaurais prfr passer mon aprs-carrire en France, qui est mon pays dorigine ! "I don't know if race made it more difficult, but it. TV Interviewers: Do you feel you were robbed tonight? Depending upon the beholder, Surya Bonaly is the most gifted and athletic figure skater in the world today, or she is a unique but squandered talent whose career seems destined to stall at. I'm the only one who did it. She grew up in Nice. Born in 1973 in France Adopted Rename Surya (means Sun in Sanskrit) Birth mother & father Adopted parents lived off the grid Surya was an active toddler Focused on skating and gymnastics at the age of 4 1984 she watched the Winter Olympics Broke her ankle Joined the French National Team in Figure Skating Back flip on ice Tumbling award 1986 Awards Latif Nasser: We'll get there. Absolutely. (Mme si les rglements de lISU interdisent actuellement aux patineuses dinclure des sauts en quad dans le programme court, elles sont autorises le faire dans le programme libre.) Tracie Hunte: She would see all these famous skaters. In fact-. Yet, commentators claimed she couldnt skate, and judges never gave her the high marks she felt she deserved. 1992ko, 1994ko eta 1998ko Neguko Olinpiar Jokoetan parte hartu zuen. I love those show time and just, you know, those fantastic costumes. Deux jours plus tard, le maire de Nice, Christian Estrosi, lui a fait un cadeau inestimable : sa nomination comme chevalier dans lOrdre de la Lgion dhonneur. Louis Aragon, pote et crivain, a vcu Nice de 1941 1942 avec sa femme Elsa Triolet. I was like, "Oh, okay. Surya Bonaly: A figure skating pioneer Bonaly landed a backflip on one blade during her free skate. Jad Abumrad: Were they professional skaters? Elvis Stojko: To her skating. Surya knew she belonged on the ice. She is a notable French-American professional figure skater best known for her unique skating style and bold jumps. Latif Nasser: She said, "Never mind, that's life, I'm used to it.". Maris au premier regard Surya Bonaly: Never mind, that's life, I'm used to it. But it was figure skating that had her heart. Latif Nasser: So that's exactly the problem. Latif Nasser: Japan. Therefore when the judges fired back at her flip with technical marks ranging from 4.8 to 5.3 and presentation scores from 4.9 to 5.3 that dropped Bonaly from sixth to 11th place, the skater didn . She shakes her head. TV Announcers: International Skating Union President Olaf Poulsen-. TV Announcers: Absolutely. Surya Bonaly dazzled figure skating fans with her skill, but being black in a mostly white sport made it tough to be fairly judged on the world stage. An exceptional track record. Hailing from Nice, France, her adoptive parents named her after the Sankrit word for "the sun." Shining athletically from an early age, she burst onto . Tracie Hunte: I just felt empathy for her. En prsence de son fianc, Pete Biver, lancienne patineuse sest vu remettre son prix dans sa ville natale de Chicago. The answer they giving to us was, "No, no she didn't.". Elvis Stojko: I didn't want to skate like what they wanted skating to look like. Latif Nasser: Yeah, she was doing a lot. Marie-Renie Le: No. Bonaly, 48, is touched that people remember her skating and amused that new fans enjoy videos of her competing and performing. TV Announcers: The marks for Surya Bonaly. She continues to do ice shows occasionally, but right now I think the main thing that she's doing, she's coaching. There's such jumping ability. This is Sandra Bezic. "A stunning back flip," Newsday wrote, 20 years ago this week. Opening up with her triple lutz. } But then there's also the gentle, almost soundless quality of, say a Yuka Sato or a Katia Gordeeva, where they're like a whisper across the ice, and yet they're flipping from one edge to another edge and forward to backward, and it's just this glide. Tracie Hunte: Now, I cannot imagine how Surya felt in that moment, but I didn't necessarily think that these prejudiced people had denied her this. Tracie Hunte: Were just a little bit more loaded. Jad Abumrad: What do you do? She was a darer. She was determined to hone the difficult maneuver,. I couldn't do anything. Tracie Hunte: That's Tonya Harding again. Surya Bonaly is a former French skater and current coach known for her tremendous technical ability and, famously, for the one-footed illegal backflip she landed at the 1998 Olympics. Marie-Renie Le: Marie-Reine Le Gougne speaking. I can't imagine what it must be like, well I can imagine what it must be like. Surya Bonaly: I knew it was my last Olympics, last major big competition. } ); Latif Nasser: Cause it's really dangerous. Tracie Hunte: But when it came down to the artistic marks-. They didn't know what to do with me. Tonya Harding: Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. TV Announcers: Off to the dressing room for the new champion. The question is, "How will they see her artistic effort?". Tracie Hunte: Combination after combination. Latif Nasser: Does the splits in the air. Tracie Hunte: The whole crowd is booing. ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb. It's a glide. Tracie Hunte: That's Sandra Bezic. TV Announcers: There's the triple salchow. Exclusif - Surya Bonaly et son fianc Pete Biver lors de la remise de ses Insignes de Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la Lgion d'Honneur par le maire de Nice, Christian Estrosi, dans les salons du. Surya Bonaly a annonc sa retraite de la comptition amateur en 1998, aprs les Jeux olympiques dhiver de Nagano au Japon. V roce 1998 na zimnch olympijskch hrch v Naganu pedvedla jako jedin olympionika v historii salto vzad na jedn noze. Lia Beck is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia. She knew. } Was there just the one sort of-. Bonaly's outspoken style sets her apart among mild-mannered Minnesotans, Biver noted. Rechercher une fiche travaux. Skater Eric Heiden Won 5 Gold Medals, Then Became a Doctor. Tracie Hunte: She'd strike a pose, and then just take off. And one day I find out that I had, you know, some skating boots who fit me and-. The tenaciousness of Surya Bonaly makes her more of a champion than all of her titles combined. Latif Nasser: No, no, no. She would be scratchy. What happened? xhr.open('POST', 'https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', true); She was adopted by white parents when she was only 18 months old and began skating at the young age of 11. The French figure skater was able to perform backflips on ice, and in 1998, she became the only person to land a backflip on one blade during the Olympicsdespite it being against the rules and even though she was injured. TV Announcers: Upset, no doubt. When I saw the show, I love the bling bling. Ela foi trs vezes medalhista de prata do Campeonato Mundial (1993-1995), conquistou cinco medalhas de ouro e uma de prata em campeonatos europeus e foi eneacampe do campeonato nacional francs. But, In Surya's case. Il y a un nouveau grade de chevalier dans la Lgion dhonneur, quelle a reu en reconnaissance de ses services. She was good, you know. TV Interviewers: Why did you not accept the medal? Jad Abumrad: Thanks for listening. She won a 1986 World Trampoline Championships silver medal for France in team tumbling at age 12. Original music from Matt, and also from Dylan Keefe. Surya Bonaly was born December 15, 1973 in Nice, France. The sound of a beautiful skater going from edge to edge, from lean to lean. If someone else did it later in a competition, I would have been pissed because I was kind of the one who created it, so now it's in everyone's memory! It's okay. Bost aldiz izan zen Europako txapelduna , eta hiru aldiz irabazi zuen zilarrezko domina Munduko txapelketan . Robert Krulwich: So I'm just curious. En raison de mon haut niveau dathltisme, jai pens quil serait bnfique pour moi dessayer simplement damliorer mes [quad jumps].. She is probably going to win. Si Surya Bonaly a poursuivi une seconde carrire aux tats-Unis, conforte par sa naturalisation amricaine en 2004 et ses fianailles avec le patineur Pete Biver en septembre 2016, elle reste une habitue de la France. Surya Bonaly redefined a sport that wasn't built for her. It is available for viewing on YouTube as "Backflips on the Ice" and includes Olympic champions Robin Cousins, Brian Orser, Scott Hamilton, Surya Bonaly, and more. TV Announcers: She's heartbroken. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloane Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. I don't know why people keep saying that. Jad Abumrad: What did she say there? What was the problem? Latif Nasser: They are still illegal, yeah. Some good ones, do you know what I mean? And say, "I'm not dumb, and I'm getting sick now, I'm sick of it. Tracie Hunte: Or, is this just a way of saying that she's black? Surya Bonaly 1973 - Figure skater. Wait. 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