Well, we had the World Championships in Japan. Latif Nasser: So this is Marie-Reine Le Gougne, and she is a former French figure skating official. Tracie Hunte: Pretty soon she had a coach. Surya Bonaly: It was my dream to, you know, to do it and I know I can. Latif Nasser: She started skating. And we sent the clip to Sandra, and she was like, "Yes!". She was adopted by white parents when she was only 18 months old and began skating at the young age of 11. At the same time that Nancy and Tonya were dueling it out on the ice, an explosively talented skater from France named Surya Bonaly was pushing the limits of the sport. I definitely remember, when she was about to skate, my mom would be like, "The black girl is skating!" Tracie Hunte: She'd strike a pose, and then just take off. Devenue la premire femme russir un quadruple saut aux Jeux olympiques, qui ont eu lieu pendant la comptition par quipe. Tonya Harding: Hope that's okay. And it was just so depressing, and it was not fair. 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 Surya Varuna Claudine Bonalyov (nepech. Robert Krulwich: How do you spell Surya? Did she get nailed? Sandra Bezic: I'd like to see her stop jumping for six months and learn to skate. 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-. No? Closing Credits: End of message. She was going to take it. Yet, commentators claimed she couldnt skate, and judges never gave her the high marks she felt she deserved. Robert Krulwich: What do you do? She was determined to hone the difficult maneuver,. See Figure Skater Surya Bonaly Now, 24 Years After Her Last Olympics, Franck Seguin/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, See Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan Now, 28 Years After Her Last Olympics. Tracie Hunte: After that, it's just triple, triple, triple, triple, triple. Tracie Hunte: They would just be flying through the air. Tracie Hunte: Is that there's this fundamental tension in the sport of figure skating between artistry on one side and athleticism on the other. Tracie Hunte: That's Sandra Bezic. Jad Abumrad: And? Latif Nasser: They called out Surya. Recherchez toute l'info travaux et les horaires modifis qui impactent votre ligne en tlchargeant votre fiche horaires. 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 . Latif Nasser: She takes the medal off of her head-. Surya Bonaly was born December 15, 1973 in Nice, France. Latif Nasser: They are still illegal, yeah. "You always need someone to be the first to do something. Surya (Bonali NDLR.) Latif Nasser: Now, Tonya Harding, she said that she had this issue. Tracie Hunte: Soaring through the air. Frustrated at every turn, she faced disappointment after disappointment until at last, with the whole world . The sound of a beautiful skater going from edge to edge, from lean to lean. Surya Bonaly broke many of figure skating's racial barriers, and a new documentary honors her legacy. Johnette Howard: They want these people to look like little ballerinas but leap into these jumps like predators. Ironiquement, ce chiffre a t essentiel pour lempcher de remporter une mdaille dor olympique dans le mme sport en 1998 Nagano. Latif Nasser: Cause it's really dangerous. Tracie Hunte: Yeah at the various European Championships, Skate America. Jad Abumrad: Were they professional skaters? You were really terrific. Latif Nasser: After she gets her scores. The question is, "How will they see her artistic effort?". Thodore de Banville, auteur de La Mer de Nice. Marie-Renie Le: No. Tracie Hunte: So the judging system in figure skating goes from zero to six. Tracie Hunte: That she never cut her hair. Marie-Renie Le: Jamie York is our Senior Producer. Tracie Hunte: And actually as a commentator-. And towards the end of the program, I was supposed to go for two more triples, and I said, "You know what, I don't feel it. Tracie Hunte: In her routine there were these moments where it just looks like she was sort of skipping across the ice, just very balletic moves. Robert Krulwich: Are they still illegal? Tracie Hunte: Those go to Yuka Sato. Latif Nasser: That was the World Championships, not the Olympics. Les horaires modifis sont aussi visibles lorsque vous recherchez une gare. It was so close. And there's no end to what she might achieve. Surya Bonaly: I thought it was like, amazing. It's like a computer, if I would have missed something, a jump, I say, "Okay, here, I can fit a triple here, obviously I can do a combo triple triple. Tracie Hunte: So, Surya was actually adopted as a baby by this white couple in the south of France. Ever. Marie-Renie Le: Marie-Reine Le Gougne speaking. Il faut prciser que lancienne gymnaste tait bien consciente du fait que le backflip est interdit en patinage artistique depuis 1976 du fait quil ncessite un atterrissage sur les deux patins. Latif Nasser: Does the splits in the air. Surya Bonaly: No. Latif Nasser: I'll do my best. Tracie Hunte: Exactly, yes. Tracie Hunte: And she'd do jump after jump-. Media in category "Surya Bonaly" The following 16 files are in this category, out of 16 total. Georges Ayache, crivain et avocat, a rsid Nice. Surya BONALY. Jad Abumrad: She competed in the World Championships in 1995, the very next year and she came in second. There's such jumping ability. When the French international figure skater stepped onto the ice in the 1990s, the skating field was overwhelmingly white. Because there are no scratches. 1992ko, 1994ko eta 1998ko Neguko Olinpiar Jokoetan parte hartu zuen. So there's no obvious thing about it, but it can make you feel a little paranoid, a little crazy. Robert Krulwich: She came in second, that's not bad. Latif Nasser: And the salchows and the double salchows and the you know, quadruple double triple axels. Surya Bonaly: I don't know, I'm just not lucky. TV Interviewers: Are they unfair to you Surya? Latif Nasser: But, here's what happened. Je suis bien plac en ce moment. Surya Bonaly: Oh, the World Championships? She continued, "I hope I opened doors to change that. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, she was just absolutely fearless. Now I'm preparing to go on a big tour in Europe for Holiday on Ice. TV Announcers: Surya Bonaly is a striking and exotic figure on the ice-, Johnette Howard: She just arrested your eyes when she skated. Latif Nasser: She would do all kinds of other jumps that weren't even allowed in competition. Latif Nasser: Had anyone ever done this back flip onto one blade before? Didier Gailhagu: Because female skating at that moment were nice cute girls. So, we made some stories. 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-. I have to say that word, elegant. Latif Nasser: Yeah, but if she-. Surya Bonaly ( Nice, 15 de dezembro de 1973) uma ex- patinadora artstica francesa, que competia no individual feminino . Surya Bonaly: I was a bit more mature. In the 1990s, Surya Bonaly was the rising star of figure skating. Now it's down to the judges as to whether the gold medal belongs to Sato of Japan or Bonaly of France. Latif Nasser: Okay, so to really understand just the context of all this, and the stakes of that moment, we gotta go all the way back. She continues to do ice shows occasionally, but right now I think the main thing that she's doing, she's coaching. "I know you don't want me to, but I'm going to do this anyway." Latif Nasser: She goes back out on the ice. TV Announcers: Oh, this is a first for me, that's for sure. Little Girl: Look, there's Sonja Henie! xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8'); Matt Kielty: Did she skate in a lot of other competitions after 95? Latif Nasser: Again, that's Sandra Bezic. Bestlifeonline.com is part of the Meredith Health Group. Latif Nasser: Eventually after about four and a half minutes, she finishes her skate-, TV Announcers: Surya Bonaly, to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. 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. 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. So WNYC studios, which is our home, wants to get a clear sense of how you listen, how you engage the shows that we make here. TV Announcers: We're here live at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning in Japan. Surya Bonaly: People, when they stand up and start making noise and tap their feet into the ground, I can feel the whole building. "Illegal but . At UPHF, students also benefit from green campuses, equipped with numerous sports facilities . This is Sandra Bezic. Latif Nasser: And you could either of see it as a kind of-. Latif Nasser: But there is this kind of ironic thing, I guess, which is that if you took her and you put her in competition today, if she was competing on the world stage today, she would would probably do better than she did back then. Jad Abumrad: So why was she getting bad marks to begin with? Shows like Radiolab. Tracie Hunte: She would do back flips, hands-. She had it all. Melissa O'donnell, Kelsey Padgett, Sandra Bezic: Arianne Wack, and Molly Webster, with help from Alexandra Lee Young, Tonya Harding: Tracie Hunt, Stephanie Tam, and Micah Loewinger. Sources. Closing Credits: Start of message. Tracie Hunte: Immediately starts with this double axel. Latif Nasser: She said she just wanted something that was hers. She is a a nine-time French national champion, a three-time World silver medalist, a five-time European champion, the 1991 World Junior Champion. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. TV Announcers: International Skating Union President Olaf Poulsen-. Here we go.". A Natural in the Gym and on the Ice. She would be scratchy. Her mother was a sports coach who taught multiple disciplines from gymnastics to figure skating. Elvis Stojko: Explosive. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, in 1993 in the World Championships, she comes in second. In the age of "ice princesses", Surya was an anomaly, and the figure skating world feared the kind of future she represented. They've been forced to shutter over safety hazards. Tracie Hunte: Well, she retired from figure skating after the 98 Olympics. a t victime de violences physiques et psychologiques de la part de sa propre mre, qui a t sa principale motivation. 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. Browse 344 skater surya bonaly stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. TV Announcers: There's a lot work to be done on the choreography yet, there's a lot of work to be done on the grace. Every day, I tried to do the best that I could do. Latif Nasser: She didn't come out. They sound different, but not even that different really? The answer they giving to us was, "No, no she didn't.". As a former champion. Surya Bonaly: Yeah. Tracie Hunte: Were they saying out loud? Tracie Hunte: I think the rep that she got after this was that she was a sore loser. Jad Abumrad: Thanks for listening. Introduction: Wait. Latif Nasser: Was this all going through your mind as you were skating? Latif Nasser: That one wasn't as close, but she was second again for the third year. Elvis Stojko: I came down right on my face. Latif Nasser: What was going on? We just mic'ed up a bunch of really good figure skaters. Latif Nasser: Oh, you'll see. It's super slushy. Tracie Hunte: And she decides to take the note. Latif Nasser: Warming up on the ice, you have this woman, this figure skater, Surya Bonaly. Sandra Bezic: This gentle, almost soundless quality, like a whisper across the ice. TV Announcers: Raw talent there. So three years in a row. Latif Nasser: She's never medalled at the Olympics before. Her performancespunctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power movesthrilled audiences around the world. 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. Latif Nasser: Japan. Tracie Hunte: They were also-. Cest chiant. Latif Nasser: The sound I have in my head is like a hockey stop. Surya Bonaly: Just that I'd over and over it so many times, that every time, it's never me because whatever I can do, how many triples, I can be pretty, I can have the best choreographer, so everything was made to be on the top. 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-. Tonya Harding: I went through it, I know all about it. I had the courage to say because she was black. We're at the Olympics in Nagano. "I mean, even many years after I'm like, 'Did I really finish fourth [at the Olympics]?" It's like a really good story. 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 ! The skater broke the rules and made Olympics history with her backflip. Latif Nasser: So she gets up, does her final skate in front of the home crowd. Didier Gailhagu: We used the press very well. We just need time and you know, power from some people.". It was very subtle. "But it is what it is. Jad Abumrad: How did Surya feel about all this? Sa tentative a chou, mais elle a ressay aux Jeux olympiques dhiver de 1996 et a failli devenir la premire femme russir un quadruple saut lors dune comptition internationale. It's probably my last competition, I don't want to just retire like that. 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. If you're talking about Serena Williams, whose facing a lot of these same kinds of criticisms, it doesn't matter. And I was like "Surya, just get on the podium, take the medal". Robert Krulwich: So I'm just curious. Tracie Hunte: Not immediately. Surya knew she belonged on the ice. Back flips! Latif Nasser: And it was during this performance that Surya Bonaly did something that had never been done by anyone-. Elvis Stojko: She wouldn't stand on it. 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