Tracie Hunte: But when it came down to the artistic marks-. Jad Abumrad: So she gave you the thumbs up that we got it right. That's why it's called the Bonaly. Tracie Hunte: And she'd do jump after jump-. Surya Bonaly Vie Prive; Si vous souhaitez poursuivre une carrire de patineur artistique professionnel, vous devez tre natif de La Runion.La date de naissance de Surya Bonaly est le 15 dcembre 1973. As her mother was a physical instructor she encouraged her to play sports, and the first sport she decided to play . Five to four, Sato is the new World Champion. There was this one time we found on YouTube where she boos the judges-. Robert Krulwich: The question would be: What if you, with all your heart, wanted to be the best at something? La petite fille a t adopte par Suzanne et Georges Bonaly alors qu'elle avait huit mois, et elle n'est jamais alle l'cole tant elle tait bien protge. Tracie Hunte: So Yuka gets off the ice, she goes to wait for her marks. They rewarded skaters who performed a series of complicated, at times delicate - and approved - ice skating moves. Just doing it like it was nothing. 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. Tracie Hunte: And she decides to take the note. Especially impressive is Janet Champion doing a string of 10 back handsprings . TV Announcers: International Skating Union President Olaf Poulsen-. Surya (Bonali NDLR.) Jad Abumrad: And does she quit at this point? I'm still performing all over the world," she told The Root in 2014. 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. Un acte de violence psychologique, mais aussi psychologique. They had a certain conception of female skating. Robert Krulwich: Don't you think that that's a little unsportsmanlike? Tracie Hunte: The whole crowd is booing. Latif Nasser: After she gets her scores. Born in Nice, France, Bonaly, who is black, was adopted by white parents and grew up in a world where she felt she had to try harder. TV Interviewers: Do you feel you were robbed tonight? Surya Bonaly: Yes, yes, yeah. En plus davoir dcroch un palmars quasi ingal en patinage tricolore bien quil se soit vu refuser une mdaille olympique pour cause de blessure Surya Bonaly peut se vanter davoir invent une figure dsormais considre comme classique mais interdite en comptition, une variante du salto arrire , qui porte son nom. Latif Nasser: Yeah, she was doing a lot. This is Sandra Bezic. Surya Bonaly: No, not the Olympics. Sandra Bezic: This gentle, almost soundless quality, like a whisper across the ice. In the age of "ice princesses", Surya was an anomaly, and the figure skating world feared the kind of future she represented. EDINA, Minn. When Surya Bonaly started figure skating as a little girl, it was casual. Surya says, you know, at that age she really didn't know too much about what was going on. Tracie Hunte: Out of the picture. 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. Latif Nasser: But when we ask people, "Did she change the sport? She would be scratchy. She had it all. He says something, but you can't hear what it is. Les horaires modifis sont aussi visibles lorsque vous recherchez une gare. 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. Judges prioritized what they saw as grace. When the French international figure skater stepped onto the ice in the 1990s, the skating field was overwhelmingly white. We just mic'ed up a bunch of really good figure skaters. Latif Nasser: Was this all going through your mind as you were skating? Surya Bonaly: My mom was a sport coach and she was about to be like a volunteer for a gymnastic club and skating club. First Olympic Games Albertville 1992. If I don't, do you kill me? Jad Abumrad: She swings one leg over-. 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. En prsence de son fianc, Pete Biver, lancienne patineuse sest vu remettre son prix dans sa ville natale de Chicago. 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. Surya Bonaly: Especially for ladies, they like to keep the girls pretty. Bestlifeonline.com is part of the Meredith Health Group. Surya Bonaly: Pretty good, thanks. 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. See Him at 63. I wonder if you can hear the truck outside. Latif Nasser: Yeah, you can watch the YouTube videos from that period, and it's like she's a different skater. Media in category "Surya Bonaly" The following 16 files are in this category, out of 16 total. Surya Bonaly: And usually you skate, you perform, you smile in front of the camera, boom, they give you the marks. So there's no obvious thing about it, but it can make you feel a little paranoid, a little crazy. if( navigator.sendBeacon ) { Thodore de Banville, auteur de La Mer de Nice. Surya Bonaly ne vous dira rien du contraire. Absolutely. 2012 WFSC 03d 890 Anisina Bonali.JPG 1,069 710; 212 KB. Mais cet exploit a maintenant t clips par le fait quelle a t teste positive pour une drogue interdite en dcembre, et elle est entoure de doutes quant aux tactiques utilises par certains entraneurs de patinage artistique dont les concurrents sont capables deffectuer des sauts aussi difficiles sur la glace. Surya Bonaly: Unfortunately, they chose her. Latif Nasser: So jumping forward to the final day of the Championship, Surya is in second place. Tracie Hunte: Were they saying out loud? Matt Kielty: After the ceremony? Jad Abumrad: Thanks for listening. Latif Nasser: Did you feel like any of it was about race? She wins 8 out of 9 technical merits. Latif Nasser: I'm really curious about what happened at the medal ceremony in 1994. Jad Abumrad: So what ended up happening? Surya Bonaly: Yeah, totally. Tracie Hunte: They were also-. Johnette Howard: Senior writer for espn.com. The radius could be huge, but it's still a circle. And you're always second guessing. Laudace de Bonaly ne sest pas limite dfier les normes ; cela stendait aussi les pousser leurs limites. I improved like every week, every month you can see a difference. Latif Nasser: And she would attack everything. 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. Tracie Hunte: Not immediately. Tracie Hunte: They would just be flying through the air. TV Announcers: She competed for France in 1994 and just missed the podium. Tracie Hunte: And she hits her first jump, crowd loves it. Lost in the Desert 34m What was the problem? TV Interviewers: Are they unfair to you Surya? What happened? How many triple triple you want me? 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-. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Latif Nasser: Let's dive. Marie-Renie Le: It was my season. For the girl I was back then -- still trying to starve and destruct myself to fit in the status quo . Marie-Renie Le: Marie-Reine Le Gougne speaking. Didier Gailhagu: Yeah, she was still a young baby-. I'm the one that created this one. Latif Nasser: Powerfulness versus prettiness. Tracie Hunte: What happens next is one of these moments that really defines Surya's story for a lot of people. Matt Kielty: But she never wins? And it was just so depressing, and it was not fair. En raison de mon haut niveau dathltisme, jai pens quil serait bnfique pour moi dessayer simplement damliorer mes [quad jumps].. Year of Birth 1973. When Surya Bonaly started her ice skating career in the early 1990s, she was the only skater of color at many events in Europe. 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: Those go to Yuka Sato. And if I do, you don't care. Latif Nasser: So she would go to these ice shows-. TV Announcers: Sixteen year old Oksana Bayul. Tracie Hunte: And when we asked her why, this is what she said. She told the Olympic Channel podcast, "If I would have been white, maybe I would have my title long ago but who knows? A Natural in the Gym and on the Ice. Matt Kielty: It's a back flip! TV Announcers: The first marks, of course, the technical merit, Bonaly's strength, although Sato skated and jumped so well, and every one of those marks except the Finnish judge go to Bonaly. You're like recalculating. The retailer is being called out over its strict security measures. RELATED:Skater Eric Heiden Won 5 Gold Medals, Then Became a Doctor. Travaux TER en cours. TV Announcers: There it is, she's got it! It's a good story that pops off of, it's like-. And that is our sport, which leads to Surya. 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. sound information and advice to make the smartest, healthiest choices. TV Announcers: Now Yuka Sato, the 21 year old from Tokyo-. 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. TV Announcers: An unlikely place to find a world-class figure skater. Between my legs and my achilles, I was a disaster. Latif Nasser: Things take a really strange turn. Everybody knows that you have to do better than anybody else who's white. Tracie Hunte: Combination after combination. Surya Bonaly: Sonja Henie. Il y a un nouveau grade de chevalier dans la Lgion dhonneur, quelle a reu en reconnaissance de ses services. Surya Varuna Claudine Bonaly (born 15 December 1973) is a French-born retired competitive figure skater.She is a three-time World silver medalist (1993-1995), a five-time European champion (1991-1995), the 1991 World Junior Champion, and a nine-time French national champion (1989-1997).. Bonaly is the only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade; she performed it at the . 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. It doesn't matter that it's figure skating. Robert Krulwich: She came in second, that's not bad. Tracie Hunte: They're professional figure skaters. Latif Nasser: She's in this gold and blue sequin outfit, and she starts her routine. Malgr cela, la patineuse, qui a concouru sous le drapeau franais, a un CV t ce qui lui permettrait de revendiquer plus dun titre : neuf fois championne de France, cinq fois championne dEurope, trois fois vice-championne du globe (senior) Pourtant, malgr le fait quelle ait disput trois Jeux Olympiques , Bonaly na jamais pu siffler du haut du monde, ni complter sa collection de mdailles olympiques (1992, 1994 et 1998). Jad Abumrad: Were they professional skaters? She was adopted by white parents when she was only 18 months old and began skating at the young age of 11. A vibrant picture book biography of Surya Bonaly, the figure skating champion who backflipped her way into history As a young girl in France, Surya Bonaly was constantly in motion, gifted in any sport she tried. Black?". TV Announcers: And where is the European Champion? Marie-Renie Le: Oh, yes. Latif Nasser: So it goes to being a tiebreaker. Latif Nasser: Cause it's really dangerous. Yet, commentators claimed she couldnt skate, and judges never gave her the high marks she felt she deserved. 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. And he told me he planted these stories! Tracie Hunte: That she never cut her hair. What was the problem? Olympian Surya Bonaly may be best remembered for rattling the judges during her 1998 Nagano Olympics free program when shegasp!performed a backflip. Surya Bonaly: No. All the cameras crowding around and-. This has never been repeated in Olympic competition since. Now I'm preparing to go on a big tour in Europe for Holiday on Ice. Sandra Bezic: We all know Yuka's skating. Tracie Hunte: Well, she retired from figure skating after the 98 Olympics. 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-. Robert Krulwich: So I'm just curious. 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 . Latif Nasser: All right. It was hers for the taking. There are different sounds. Stories, right? It was huge. Surya Bonaly: I prefer to hit a triple triple jump, then [inaudible 00:10:14]. And the doctors said, "Maybe we should withdraw." So if you have a second, there is a survey at wnyc.org/participate. But the persons who judge what's the best at this something you want to do, don't share their bestness with your sense of bestness, so you do your best and their best and your best are different and now you can't best it out. But Surya Bonaly was not the skating talent they'd expected: eccentric, defiant, athletic - and black. They sound different, but not even that different really? Elvis Stojko: Like oh my go, holy (bleep), she's actually doing this? 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. And it couldn't be totally illegal because as long as land on one foot, "Maybe we will think about it.". That she had a bad attitude. All Rights Reserved. Surya Bonaly: I have my eyes glue on those skaters. Latif Nasser: Not at Olympics, not at the World Championships, no. Sandra Bezic: It's a beautiful sound. Latif Nasser: So that's exactly the problem. Surya Bonaly: It was very fast. It's mine. 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. You will see significant upgrades in-store and online this year. 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