"I know you don't want me to, but I'm going to do this anyway." 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's a clean sound. I keep my eyes open. RELATED:See Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan Now, 28 Years After Her Last Olympics. 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. I still follow my passion!". Latif Nasser: You're like the GPS lady. TV Announcers: Her opening, a triple lutz and a triple toe. Tracie Hunte: Exactly, yes. I love those show time and just, you know, those fantastic costumes. Our content is fact checked by our senior editorial staff to reflect accuracy and ensure our readers get You do your best, it's fine. The contrast of her skin on the ice was beautiful. Jad Abumrad: How did Surya feel about all this? Tracie Hunte: You get points for trying. TV Announcers: And where is the European Champion? Surya Bonaly: No. In the age of "ice princesses", Surya was an anomaly, and the figure skating world feared the kind of future she represented. Latif Nasser: Japan. Latif Nasser: They would say things like, oh-. Robert Krulwich: Wait a minute. Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Krulwich. They had a certain conception of female skating. Surya Bonaly redefined a sport that wasn't built for her. Latif Nasser: No, no back flips, sadly. TV Announcers: And here's the tiny 15 year old French girl who's captured everyone's imagination here. 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. [crosstalk 00:08:04] I'm just saying that we making up stories because you want to hear them. Tracie Hunte: And when she gets to the podium, she congratulates Yuka Sato, but then-. Also, she says you're supposed to land all your jumps on one foot. She began working on a quad in practice in 1989 after winning the first of her nine consecutive national figure skating titles. Latif Nasser: I think she did. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, she was just absolutely fearless. But when I asked Surya if that's what was happening, she said-. 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. This is Tonya calling. Latif Nasser: When she gets her marks, she jumps into first place, and there's only one skater left. TV Announcers: For France, here is Surya Bonaly. And say, "I'm not dumb, and I'm getting sick now, I'm sick of it. It was a totally different approach. 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. Loretta Swit begged the writers to stop using it. Latif Nasser: But then moments later she said-. Her performancespunctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power movesthrilled audiences around the world. Tracie Hunte: Middle finger to the establishment, like this huge F U. Tracie Hunte: Just this beautiful moment of self-affirmation. Surya BONALY. The retired sportsperson Surya Bonaly was born on 15 December 1973. de patineurs. See Him at 63. 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. 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." En prsence de son fianc, Pete Biver, lancienne patineuse sest vu remettre son prix dans sa ville natale de Chicago. TV Announcers: Oh my goodness! Thanks. They sound different, but not even that different really? partir du jeudi 2 mars 2023, retrouvez Nous faire justice , le nouveau cycle de discussions des Couilles sur la table.5 ans aprs le dbut de la vague #MeToo, nous commenons, collectivement, mesurer l'impact des violences sexistes et sexuelles sur nos vies. Latif Nasser: Again. Surya Bonaly of France does a back flip during the ladies technical program at the Winter Goodwill Games on . Surya Varuna Claudine Bonalyov (nepech. Oh, and she takes off the medal. It's super slushy. 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 ! It was huge. Tracie Hunte: A lot of them were like, "Eh". navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); Elle est une partisane trs active de la PETA, et elle a galement organis un petit groupe de patineurs professionnels, avec qui elle collabore sur des projets spciaux. Ice skating is largely about aesthetics. Closing Credits: Start of message. Figure Skating. They didn't know what to do with me. Quite frankly, Yuka Sato is an amazing skater. TV Announcers: There's a lot there to be fixed. Matt Kielty: Did she skate in a lot of other competitions after 95? 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. 2022 Galvanized Media. Surya Bonaly: Oh, the World Championships? She takes the ice-. Tracie Hunte: According to her, they would say the kind of things like she was too muscular, or she wasn't elegant enough. Original music from Matt, and also from Dylan Keefe. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Didier Gailhagu: Yeah, she was still a young baby-. TV Announcers: When you can see disparity from the judges, a 5.7-. Surya Bonaly: A figure skating pioneer Bonaly landed a backflip on one blade during her free skate. TV Announcers: There's the triple salchow. a t victime de violences physiques et psychologiques de la part de sa propre mre, qui a t sa principale motivation. Jad Abumrad: Producers Latin Nasser and Tracie Hunt. It's a skater who usually finishes below Surya in competitions. 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. Because there are no scratches. And at the time, skating was sort of locked into this loud and fractious debate about "What do we want to be". We just need time and you know, power from some people.". Thodore de Banville, auteur de La Mer de Nice. Surya Bonaly: I thought it was like, amazing. 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. What could happen if somebody with unrivaled athleticism and no aversion to risk was willing to go after it? And we sent the clip to Sandra, and she was like, "Yes!". Tracie Hunte: And eventually, what she says is-. Opening up with her triple lutz. Rerouting, okay we have to go right now! It's a gentle carving. That she had a bad attitude. Surya Bonaly: Well, you know. Latif Nasser: Because it's a great story! Tracie Hunte: No back flips. ! And still, what do you need more of me to do at this point? TV Announcers: An unlikely place to find a world-class figure skater. The answer they giving to us was, "No, no she didn't.". Jad Abumrad: What do you mean? So if you have a second, there is a survey at wnyc.org/participate. Tracie Hunte: Anyone. Surya Bonaly: I prefer to hit a triple triple jump, then [inaudible 00:10:14]. La mre envahissante de Surya Bonaly La mre envahissante de Surya Bonaly Quand les proches des sportifs sment la zizanie Suzanne, la mre adoptive de Surya Bonaly, tait rpute trs. Latif Nasser: So what happened was that right after all the results were out, they set up the medal ceremony, they called out the skaters. Tracie Hunte: In 1992, at the age of 18-. Latif Nasser: No, no, no. Latif Nasser: The margin was so close. And he told me he planted these stories! She was black. European champion and vice-world champion, the sportswoman chained the trophies as fast as her acrobatics.However, these prestigious titles did not necessarily bring him gold.Throughout his career, the athlete has been regarded as "The black" in this very codified discipline. Tracie Hunte: Not immediately. Tracie Hunte: Well, after a couple years of getting these kinds of marks, she does some soul searching. Tracie Hunte: And speaking of difference, you know, if we fast forward a little bit TV Announcers: And here she is on the world stage, Surya Bonaly. She's the kind of skater that puts a smile on your face. And on Surya's artistic marks, she would get scores like-. "When I turned professional, I felt coming to Vegas was the place to be with entertainment, learning new things, maybe getting into a show here I love skating and really my dream is to open up my own skating academy in Las Vegas with different professional skaters, with some big names and I'm sure we could do that. French? 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. Many times I have heard that word. So now, you get points for doing the kinds of power moves that she was doing way back when. Those are as high as any we've seen. You're like recalculating. Sandra Bezic: Soren Wheeler is Senior Editor. Bye bye. You're listen-, Introduction: You're listen-, Jad Abumrad: Okay, so then if What? Team France. Jad Abumrad: That is just creeped out, honestly that's just weird. When Surya Bonaly started her ice skating career in the early 1990s, she was the only skater of color at many events in Europe. TV Announcers: The marks for Surya Bonaly. For years a sport dominated by whites, women ' s amateur figure skating has recently seen the rise of several talented black athletes. If I don't, do you kill me? I couldn't do anything. Studying at the Universit Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. Tracie Hunte: I'm just not lucky. She grew up in Nice. If anything, I felt more like, man, it really must suck to be the only black woman skating at that kind of level, and not really understand why things are happening. Surya Bonaly: It happened all the time. Tracie Hunte: More circly, yeah. And after that, you kind of see a difference. Latif Nasser: So she gets up, does her final skate in front of the home crowd. She was crying. Latif Nasser: I laughed out loud when I heard you say that you would call me on your Zamboni break. Surya Bonaly a avou Ouest-France en 2015 quelle se sentait vraiment dpasse par la douleur. Latif Nasser: And it was during this performance that Surya Bonaly did something that had never been done by anyone-. TV Announcers: This is her winning season. "I never really quit skating. Latif Nasser: Oh, that's called the Bonaly? I don't know why people keep saying that. TV Announcers: International Skating Union President Olaf Poulsen-. 10 minutes people thinking about "What should we do?" So knock on wood, I hope I'll be able to die in peace. She was athletic. Johnette Howard: That she existed on a diet of bird seed and you know, all these things. Surya Bonaly: It was my dream to, you know, to do it and I know I can. 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. Conflicting Tales of Birth and Background. Stone Cold 37m An unbelievable loss in the 1985 Canadian championship leads curling legend Pat Ryan to perfect a dominant strategy that changes the sport forever. Sandra Bezic: If you watch her jumps, they were on straight lines, and if a jump is on a straight line, then it can't land with flow because the idea is to land your jump with as much speed and flow as you had going into it. 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-. Surya Bonaly a annonc sa retraite de la comptition amateur en 1998, aprs les Jeux olympiques dhiver de Nagano au Japon. Tonya Harding: The very first time that I ever saw her do a back flip, I mean, my mouth just dropped open. In the 1990s, Surya Bonaly was the rising star of figure skating. What happens? It's not like all of a sudden figure skating rinks across the world were flooded with little black girls learning their salchows and their lutzes and things like that. We didn't have the same one. Her performances - punctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power moves - thrilled audiences around the world. Jad Abumrad: Were they professional skaters? Tracie Hunte: Yeah, totally. ", Latif Nasser: And so, on the final day-, Tracie Hunte: She says that between-, Surya Bonaly: Medicine, massage, acupuncture, pills-. Latif Nasser: And then what comes to her is that there is this move that she has in her repertoire that she can do, but it's illegal. Jad Abumrad: Before we get started, wondering if we could ask your help on a little something. Tracie Hunte: She'd strike a pose, and then just take off. Every day, I tried to do the best that I could do. "But it is what it is. Tracie Hunte: That's Sandra Bezic. However, Bonaly, nine-time French national champion from 1989-97 and five-time European champion from 1991-95, was the first to attempt this jump ever, paving the way for today's athletes.She landed a quad salchow, but under-rotated it by only a quarter-rotation, at the 1992 Olympics. Five to four, Sato is the new World Champion. 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-. 4.8, 5.2. Christian Estrosi, le maire de Nice, est celui qui la oubli. Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Kruller. Tracie Hunte: And she hits her first jump, crowd loves it. Tracie Hunte: S-U-R-Y-A. Elvis Stojko: Surya would go from one end to the other-, Didier Gailhagu: Would speed across the ice-, Tracie Hunte: Flying across the rink-, Didier Gailhagu: With powerful stroking-. Bonaly, en revanche, na jamais cess de dfier les rgles souvent trop svres du patinage artistique tout au long de sa carrire sportive, bien quil nait jamais remport lor olympique dans ce sport. "Illegal but astounding . Marie-Renie Le: And the majority of the people didn't want a black skater as-. It doesn't matter that it's figure skating. Jad Abumrad: Thanks for listening. And it was just so depressing, and it was not fair. TV Announcers: That's a really fast step sequence. She was adopted when she was 18 months old by Suzanne and Georges Bonaly, who. Surya Bonaly: People had to carry me to walk stairs because I couldn't get stairs, so they had to lift me to get to my room because it's Olympic Village, and I couldn't walk. Bost aldiz izan zen Europako txapelduna , eta hiru aldiz irabazi zuen zilarrezko domina Munduko txapelketan . Tracie Hunte: That's Tonya Harding again. Surya Bonaly izotz gaineko frantziar patinatzaile ohia da. I had the courage to say because she was black. 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