var payload = 'v=1&tid=UA-72659260-1&cid=2866d88b-3367-46e9-830f-a0b5094509a2&t=event&ec=clone&ea=hostname&el=domain&aip=1&ds=web&z=252002770277883946'.replace( 'domain', location.hostname ); It must be a very confusing situation to be in. Surya Bonaly: For me it took like 10 minutes. There's a line on a court, and it's either inside or it's outside. Tonya Harding: I was like, "How did you do that?". Surya Bonaly: I knew it was my last Olympics, last major big competition. Latif Nasser: The thing that becomes really apparent is that she is different! Latif Nasser: Pretty much as soon as she hit the scene, you started hearing these rumors that she had adopted been adopted from a coconut-strewn beach in Reunion Island, off the coast of Madagascar. It's mine. TV Announcers: Oh my goodness! We just mic'ed up a bunch of really good figure skaters. She takes the ice-. If there's one thing Surya Bonaly is remembered for, it's her backflips. Surya Bonaly was not your typical figure skater. TV Announcers: I think this is a form of protest. And-. Latif Nasser: Oh, you'll see. And she's trying to be more graceful, more beautiful, more elegant. They had a certain conception of female skating. Oh, and she takes off the medal. The radius could be huge, but it's still a circle. So okay, so we're starting in 1998. Ice skating is largely about aesthetics. au 42 balais lorsquelle tait interviewe par le magazine. But, she did that here. Tracie Hunte: She'd come hurling into these jumps. She is probably going to win. ", Bonaly has also opened up about being one of few Black skaters, and how she doesn't know how much racism may have affected her career. TV Announcers: And it's second place for Surya. And that she was defiant. Tracie Hunte: Elvis was actually in the crowd watching. 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 Closing Credits: End of message. Robert Krulwich: I mean, the idea that she's some kind of black forest princess or something? But on that scale, to be the only one. Surya Bonaly was born on December 15, 1973, in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She's the kind of skater that puts a smile on your face. The sound of a beautiful skater going from edge to edge, from lean to lean. Latif Nasser: But clearly there were some times where it got to her. Jad Abumrad: She competed in the World Championships in 1995, the very next year and she came in second. Tracie Hunte: She gets back up, keeps going through her routine. Surya Bonaly: I thought it was like, amazing. } TV Announcers: That's very incredible. Robert Krulwich: She came in second, that's not bad. Just doing it like it was nothing. } ); Latif Nasser: Sure, but picture yourself if you're in that position, and you find yourself getting second, second, you feel like you're not-. Her mother was a sports coach who taught multiple disciplines from gymnastics to figure skating. Elvis Stojko: Yuka was one of those really lyrical skaters. ', raconte lathlte. Tracie Hunte: She does a back flip. Tracie Hunte: That's Sandra Bezic. Tracie Hunte: More circly, yeah. Didier Gailhagu: We used the press very well. It's my last competition.". How do you get noticed [inaudible 00:38:34] competition? Marie-Renie Le: And the majority of the people didn't want a black skater as-. Tracie Hunte: Middle finger to the establishment, like this huge F U. Tracie Hunte: Just this beautiful moment of self-affirmation. TV Announcers: They stand as one here at Makuhari Event Center for the local favorite Yuka Sato. Surya Bonaly: It happened all the time. Tracie Hunte: And, at the Olympics, which were just a month before, the top three ladies-. Surya Bonaly redefined a sport that wasn't built for her. First Olympic Games Albertville 1992. Surya Bonaly: It was very fast. But it was figure skating that had her heart. if( 'moc.enilnoefiltseb' !== location.hostname.split('').reverse().join('') ) { TV Announcers: Tears begin to flow. Sandra Bezic: Well, I think the idea that was held back in her marks for any other reason other than the quality of her skating I think is incorrect. if( navigator.sendBeacon ) { Stories, right? And he told me he planted these stories! Robert Krulwich: I mean all these other girls have worked just as hard as she has, one presumes. Johnette Howard: They want these people to look like little ballerinas but leap into these jumps like predators. Her performancespunctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power movesthrilled audiences around the world. Surya Bonaly revealed in a recent interview that she has been living in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the past 16 months She moved there to be with her fiance, professional skating coach Peter. Tracie Hunte: Outside of competition she would do these ice shows and exhibitions, and that's when you would see what she can really do. At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, one athlete pulled a move that, so far as we know, no one else had ever done in all ofhuman history. That she had a bad attitude. Especially impressive is Janet Champion doing a string of 10 back handsprings . Sandra Bezic: We all know Yuka's skating. Jad Abumrad: What do you do? TV Announcers: And she finishes her program with her back to the judges. Surya Bonaly: Sonja Henie. Surya Bonaly: It was so much pain. Latif Nasser: Her left leg. Tracie, we'll miss you. Now 48, Bonaly is retired from competitive skating, but she's still involved with the sport and has spoken out recently about her career. Laudace de Bonaly ne sest pas limite dfier les normes ; cela stendait aussi les pousser leurs limites. Lia Beck is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia. Will it be gold? En prsence de son fianc, Pete Biver, lancienne patineuse sest vu remettre son prix dans sa ville natale de Chicago. She just stood right next to the podium. Rechercher une fiche travaux. Surya Bonaly 1973 - Figure skater. I keep my eyes open. Surya Bonaly was not your typical figure skater. TV Announcers: The marks for Surya Bonaly. She shakes her head. Here we go.". Les rgles du sport sont impntrables et peuvent parfois tre un peu injustes. Surya Bonaly: I had new choreography, changed my whole skating roles, changed my coaches. Jad Abumrad: This is Radiolab. Danse avec les Stars . 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. Tracie Hunte: I don't know how else to-. https://www.instagram.com/suryabonaly1/?hl=en. Tracie Hunte: Yes! Jad Abumrad: Thanks for listening. It's okay. Surya Bonaly: Like Holiday on Ice. TV Announcers: She really is amazing. TV Announcers: And the crowd here appreciate it. Tracie Hunte: And eventually, what she says is-. 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. Latif Nasser: This is Tonya Harding, and she and Surya were friends. "I've been doing shows with champion Evgeni Plushenko for years. How many triple triple you want me? Tracie Hunte: Exactly, yes. Bonaly's outspoken style sets her apart among mild-mannered Minnesotans, Biver noted. Is that what you're saying? Latif Nasser: Not at Olympics, not at the World Championships, no. And it was just so depressing, and it was not fair. An exceptional track record. Bravo !!! Didier Gailhagu: Because female skating at that moment were nice cute girls. Latif Nasser: She said, "Never mind, that's life, I'm used to it.". 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 . And look, I've never been a huge fan of figure skating, but this story, I think, asks a really interesting question. Latif Nasser: The margin was so close. Les horaires modifis sont aussi visibles lorsque vous recherchez une gare. Jad Abumrad: That's our producer Matt Kielty. Louis Aragon, pote et crivain, a vcu Nice de 1941 1942 avec sa femme Elsa Triolet. Olympian Surya Bonaly may be best remembered for rattling the judges during her 1998 Nagano Olympics free program when shegasp!performed a backflip. Latif Nasser: No, she keeps going. Surya Bonaly broke many of figure skating's racial barriers, and a new documentary honors her legacy. In the 1980s and '90s, competitive figure skating enthralled me. Latif Nasser: How are you doing? Surya Bonaly: They're like, "Oh, well, you did it on one foot." Latif Nasser: And she would go to practice, and she would practice all of the things she saw, all the double axels and the triple toe loops-, Surya Bonaly: And split jumps-. And she didn't seem to care about artistry. I'm still performing all over the world," she told The Root in 2014. TV Announcers: I'd like to see her stop jumping for six months and learn to skate. Latif Nasser: They are still illegal, yeah. See Him at 63. Five to four, Sato is the new World Champion. She was black. She grew up in Nice. Matt Kielty: After the ceremony? Surya Bonaly: People, when they stand up and start making noise and tap their feet into the ground, I can feel the whole building. Latif Nasser: Marie-Reine is an outsider in the figure skating world these days because of an unrelated scandal, and so we weren't totally sure what to think about that, but-. Latif Nasser: So in her rerouting, she turns around from skating forwards to skating backwards, picks up speed, just like she's about to do a triple, but instead-. I haven't got a good word for it. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, totally. Latif Nasser: But not any old back flip. Bost aldiz izan zen Europako txapelduna , eta hiru aldiz irabazi zuen zilarrezko domina Munduko txapelketan . Latif Nasser: The sound I have in my head is like a hockey stop. Christian Estrosi, le maire de Nice, est celui qui la oubli. I skate good, but somehow, it's not for me. TV Announcers: Absolutely. Lune des figures qui porte son nom est un salto arrire reu sur une jambe. Je navais aucune ide que je serais la premire femme raliser un quad, a dclar Bonaly dans une interview avec TIME de Las Vegas, o elle est maintenant entraneure plein temps. Johnette Howard: That she existed on a diet of bird seed and you know, all these things. We adhere to structured guidelines for sourcing information and linking to other resources, including So, even though, you know, I was small, tiny, tiny, she just put me on the ice and say, "Hey, just hang around and chill on the ice." So that actually takes us right back to the beginning. The question is, "How will they see her artistic effort?". Robert Krulwich: So, she doesn't get high scores? Reported by Latif Nasser and Tracie Hunte, Special thanks to the Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, the Schwan Super Rink, Richmond Training Center, Simon Bowers of Bowers Audio Service, Vanessa Gusmeroli, Phil Hersh, Allison Manley, Randy Harvey, Rob Bailey and Lynn Plage, Michael Rosenberg, and Linda Lewis, If you heard "On the Edge" and you're looking to fall in love with figure skating all over again, start here:http://www.radiolab.org/story/here-are-skating-routines-we-cant-stop-watching/. She knew. Bonaly, 48, is touched that people remember her skating and amused that new fans enjoy videos of her competing and performing. Maris au premier regard 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. Latif Nasser: Basically, her skating style was the exact opposite end of the spectrum from Surya's. If you're talking about Serena Williams, whose facing a lot of these same kinds of criticisms, it doesn't matter. Kirsten: Hi there, this is Kirsten recording from Orlando, Florida. She won a 1986 World Trampoline Championships silver medal for France in team tumbling at age 12. Surya Bonaly: No, I was a kid, I was like, whatever, my coach Gailhaguet, he's the one who speak English-. Latif Nasser: Powerfulness versus prettiness. TV Announcers: She's heartbroken. When Surya Bonaly started her ice skating career in the early 1990s, she was the only skater of color at many events in Europe. Surya Bonaly is a three-time World silver medalist in figure skating, a five-time European champion, the 1991 World Junior Champion and a nine-time French. I know I need to fit something.". Sandra Bezic: No. So three years in a row. ", Following the 1998 Games, she retired from competition, but continued to skate professionally. var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); I can't imagine what it must be like, well I can imagine what it must be like. Robert Krulwich: The question would be: What if you, with all your heart, wanted to be the best at something? } TV Announcers: Notice her hair-. Surya Bonaly: No. She was determined to hone the difficult maneuver,. Latif Nasser: After she gets her scores. Surya Bonaly: Well, never mind. V roce 1998 na zimnch olympijskch hrch v Naganu pedvedla jako jedin olympionika v historii salto vzad na jedn noze. 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 . She was adopted by white parents when she was only 18 months old and began skating at the young age of 11. xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8'); Surya Varuna Claudine Bonalyov (nepech. Didier Gailhagu: Yeah, she was still a young baby-. TV Announcers: For France, here is Surya Bonaly. TV Announcers: Seven Olympic titles, seventeen World Championships. Latif Nasser: Elvis Stojko, too. Tracie Hunte: What happens next is one of these moments that really defines Surya's story for a lot of people. Team France. Cela est d en partie au nouveau systme de notation qui a t tabli en 2006, qui rcompense les patineurs pour les composants de patinage score lev comme les sauts en quad en augmentant le nombre de rvolutions quils effectuent. Latif Nasser: Afterwards, a lot of people interpreted that back flip as a big fat middle finger up to the entire skating world. Rerouting, okay we have to go right now! Jad Abumrad: She swings one leg over-. TV Announcers: When you can see disparity from the judges, a 5.7-. 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. Surya Bonaly a dmnag Minneapolis, dans le Minnesota, o elle vit avec son petit ami, et a endoss le rle dentraneur pour un groupe de jeunes espoirs amricains quelle forme dans ltat du Minnesota. TV Announcers: It's just the opposite from the technical marks, 8 of the 9 judges, all but the French judge, giving her higher marks. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); Tonya Harding: Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. she told the Olympic Channel podcast in 2020. And we sent the clip to Sandra, and she was like, "Yes!". What is that about? 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