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. Matt Kielty: Did she skate in a lot of other competitions after 95? I skate good, but somehow, it's not for me. 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-. Conflicting Tales of Birth and Background. Bonaly credited her ability to perform triple jumps with ease to her gymnastics background. Bonaly was born on December 15, 1973 in Nice, France to an Ivorian father and a mother from Runion, Madagascar. Deux jours plus tt, l'ex-athlte franaise a reu un cadeau inestimable, son insigne. You're the first person in the history of the human race who has done that. And we sent the clip to Sandra, and she was like, "Yes!". I definitely remember, when she was about to skate, my mom would be like, "The black girl is skating!" Surya Bonaly: Yeah. 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. Matt Kielty: After the ceremony? Latif Nasser: She's in this gold and blue sequin outfit, and she starts her routine. Surya Bonaly: And I couldn't lift. What has happened since this story ended? 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. Introduction: Wait. TV Interviewers: Very disappointed? Latif Nasser: They called out Surya. 4.8, 5.2. 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 ); 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 ! Elvis Stojko: I didn't want to skate like what they wanted skating to look like. 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 . Wait. He says something, but you can't hear what it is. She was going to take it. When Surya Bonaly started her ice skating career in the early 1990s, she was the only skater of color at many events in Europe. And then, after about a minute. RELATED:See Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan Now, 28 Years After Her Last Olympics. It came down to a choice between Yuka Sato's artistry and dynamic footwork and Surya Bonaly's gymnastic jumping, and the judges gave the women's world figure skating championship to Sato Saturday . Elvis Stojko told us that one time he tried it and it did not go well. Latif Nasser: She said, "Never mind, that's life, I'm used to it.". I couldn't do anything. Bonaly was the French national Champion for nine years consecutively and was also the European Champion five years in a row. Surya Bonaly : l'ancienne patineuse victime de discrimination et de racisme durant sa.Dans les annes 1990, une jeune patineuse originaire de la campagne n. En prsence de son fianc, Pete Biver, lancienne patineuse sest vu remettre son prix dans sa ville natale de Chicago. I know I'm going to crash, I can't do it, my leg is not with me any more.". At UPHF, students also benefit from green campuses, equipped with numerous sports facilities . A friend of mine told me once that racism can make black people crazy, which is a very broad way of looking at it, in the sense that you almost never know why people are reacting to you the way that they do. Every day, I tried to do the best that I could do. Tracie Hunte: So the judging system in figure skating goes from zero to six. Tracie Hunte: Yes! Lost in the Desert 34m It doesn't matter that it's figure skating. Latif Nasser: So she would go to these ice shows-. I don't know if there was racism. Ever. Jad Abumrad: stay listening? It's a good story that pops off of, it's like-. Jad Abumrad: She competed in the World Championships in 1995, the very next year and she came in second. So, we made some stories. I was known for the backflip in exhibitions, not in competition, but I wanted to leave a trademark. Robert Krulwich: And I think it's very legitimate to feel like you can't out your finger on this feeling that never goes away and never absolves and is always there and always makes you feel weird. Bonaly quickly became a star in France, winning the first of her nine national titles as a 15-year-old in 1989 while working on her quad jump. TV Announcers: -years old from Nice in the south of France. She won a 1986 World Trampoline Championships silver medal for France in team tumbling at age 12. Marie-Renie Le: And we had to choose only two girls. Latif Nasser: Well I asked her. Tracie Hunte: She was kind of hard on Surya. So three years in a row. Jad Abumrad: And? Games Participations 3. Sandra Bezic: We all know Yuka's skating. Latif Nasser: Yeah, you can watch the YouTube videos from that period, and it's like she's a different skater. "I mean, even many years after I'm like, 'Did I really finish fourth [at the Olympics]?" The retailer is being called out over its strict security measures. It's a clean sound. Latif Nasser: I guess it depends on how you define first. Surya Bonaly: No. So knock on wood, I hope I'll be able to die in peace. (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.) Yet, commentators claimed she couldn't skate, and judges never gave her the high marks she felt she deserved. And it's more like empathy. Latif Nasser: She didn't come out. Latif Nasser: So when Surya was skating, would she have that sound? And it couldn't be totally illegal because as long as land on one foot, "Maybe we will think about it.". Jad Abumrad: That is just creeped out, honestly that's just weird. Backflips were, and still are, illegal in. Latif Nasser: Now, Tonya Harding, she said that she had this issue. If you have any concerns about the accuracy of our content, please reach out to our editors by e-mailing Elvis Stojko: And Yuka had this very-. xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8'); "I've been doing shows with champion Evgeni Plushenko for years. Tracie Hunte: For various reasons. Surya Bonaly.jpg 709 980; 697 KB. TV Announcers: She really is amazing. Surya Bonaly ( Nice, 15 de dezembro de 1973) uma ex- patinadora artstica francesa, que competia no individual feminino . Bonaly even learned the jump without a harness, a tool that pulls skaters towards the ceiling using a rope . Latif Nasser: Cause it's really dangerous. 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. TV Interviewers: Are the judges unfair to you? As a former champion. The radius could be huge, but it's still a circle. Jad Abumrad: Special thanks to Vanessa Riley, Moira North, skaters Elisa Angeli, and Christian Erwin from The Ice Theater of New York, and to Ed Haber for recording it all, and a very heartfelt thanks to Marilyn Wiggins. Sandra Bezic: Hi. 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-. 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 . Elvis Stojko: For me, it was sort of a new face on the scene, like the fresh stick of gum. And at the time, skating was sort of locked into this loud and fractious debate about "What do we want to be". Back flips! And after that, you kind of see a difference. Robert Krulwich: In a similar pattern? Black?". And that makes someone like Surya much more vulnerable. Latif Nasser: Her left leg. But, she did that here. Surya Bonaly: No, not the Olympics. Bonaly was the focus of an episode of the 2019 Netflix docuseries Losers about athletes and their experiences with defeats. She knew. Respect Sorya, je vous ai toujours admir, quelle carrire, et le salto arrire restera longtemps grav dans notre ma mmoire ! scientific studies and medical journals. Louis Aragon, pote et crivain, a vcu Nice de 1941 1942 avec sa femme Elsa Triolet. de patineurs. Surya Bonaly: Yeah. Tracie Hunte: In 1989 when she appears at the World Championships-. Surya Bonaly: Yeah, because I was black, so I was like, people was like, "What? Do a back flip. Well, how about every day?" Robert Krulwich: What about back flips? TV Announcers: Oh, this is a first for me, that's for sure. Surya Bonaly: I know, I was like, "It's the only time," and I guess-. 10 minutes people thinking about "What should we do?" Tonya Harding: I went through it, I know all about it. "Illegal but . Seriously. Jad Abumrad: The piece was produced by Matt Kielty. Jad Abumrad: So what ended up happening? Tracie Hunte: And she'd do jump after jump-. There's a line on a court, and it's either inside or it's outside. Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Kruller. Latif Nasser: But when we ask people, "Did she change the sport? Johnette Howard: Yeah, I think there's several things. Surya Bonaly: I know I did my best, I did everything. That has to stop." Tracie, we'll miss you. Latif Nasser: What does that sound like? Tracie Hunte: Were they saying out loud? Surya Bonaly: I prefer to hit a triple triple jump, then [inaudible 00:10:14]. It's my last competition.". Latif Nasser: She said she just wanted something that was hers. Latif Nasser: Now, we should say that wasn't the sound of Surya skating, or any of those other people. Latif Nasser: I'm really curious about what happened at the medal ceremony in 1994. Tracie Hunte: And eventually, what she says is-. There's the sound of Brian Boitano's back crossovers that used to excite me when I was in the rink with him. It was hers for the taking. 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. 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. TV Announcers: Surya Bonaly is a striking and exotic figure on the ice-, Johnette Howard: She just arrested your eyes when she skated. TV Announcers: Style and grace. Was there just the one sort of-. 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 figure skating pioneer Bonaly landed a backflip on one blade during her free skate. Tracie Hunte: A lot of them were like, "Eh". Tracie Hunte: I don't know how else to-. Tonya Harding: The strength, and the power-. 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. Johnette Howard: That she existed on a diet of bird seed and you know, all these things. Surya Bonaly: From the local ring, I guess a coach kind of call and have a meeting with your parents, say "Hey, you know, it will be nice if you could come like two times a week. TV Announcers: And here's the tiny 15 year old French girl who's captured everyone's imagination here. au 42 balais lorsquelle tait interviewe par le magazine. She wins 8 out of 9 technical merits. What is that about? And, at her final Olympic performance, she attempted one jump that flew in the face of the establishment, and marked her for life as a rebel. Tracie Hunte: Exactly, yes. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, she was just absolutely fearless. Latif Nasser: Things take a really strange turn. The claim reappeared in a post on Instagram on February 13, 2023. Surya Bonaly: And usually you skate, you perform, you smile in front of the camera, boom, they give you the marks. Rechercher une fiche travaux. TV Announcers: She competed for France in 1994 and just missed the podium. Tracie Hunte: So, Surya was actually adopted as a baby by this white couple in the south of France. Latif Nasser: What about it felt unfair? She takes the ice-. 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. Marie-Renie Le: And the majority of the people didn't want a black skater as-. Tracie Hunte: Soaring through the air. TV Announcers: Tears begin to flow. Latif Nasser: Had anyone ever done this back flip onto one blade before? What was the problem? 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. Elvis Stojko: Yuka was one of those really lyrical skaters. 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. We just need time and you know, power from some people.". Les horaires modifis sont aussi visibles lorsque vous recherchez une gare. But on that scale, to be the only one. Recherchez toute l'info travaux et les horaires modifis qui impactent votre ligne en tlchargeant votre fiche horaires. Tonya Harding: I was like, "How did you do that?". Latif Nasser: Okay, okay. a t victime de violences physiques et psychologiques de la part de sa propre mre, qui a t sa principale motivation. 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. Surya Bonaly: Yeah, no. Surya Bonaly: She did good, she did good. I know I need to fit something.". And the crowd loved it. Latif Nasser: And she would attack everything. Tracie Hunte: She could barely speak English, she was barely 16. Jad Abumrad: Do you have any idea what you're saying right now? French? Between my legs and my achilles, I was a disaster. Jad Abumrad: So they didn't change their mind about the back flip in the end. Surya Bonaly: Unfortunately, they chose her. Latif Nasser: How are you doing? I was like, "Oh, okay. Latif Nasser: So she ends up finishing 10th. You cantake the survey we mentioned at the beginning of this episode here:https://www.research.net/r/wnyclistenerThank you! Showing Editorial results for surya bonaly. Tracie Hunte: Well, that's the question, and it's kind of complicated. Latif Nasser: But then moments later she said-. Tracie Hunte: Yes. Latif Nasser: Out of the picture. 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