And there's no end to what she might achieve. She continues to do ice shows occasionally, but right now I think the main thing that she's doing, she's coaching. You can tell she's favoring one leg, but she manages to land a few jumps, then she falls. All Rights Reserved. Surya (Bonali NDLR.) TV Announcers: Triple toe loop. Jad Abumrad: So she gave you the thumbs up that we got it right. Tracie Hunte: She's on pain killers. What is that about? Loretta Swit begged the writers to stop using it. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloane Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Bravo !!! You're the first person in the history of the human race who has done that. Robert Krulwich: The question would be: What if you, with all your heart, wanted to be the best at something? It's like a really good story. de patineurs. Sandra Bezic: And the other thing about skating that you don't necessarily get on camera is the sound of the edge. Latif Nasser: And she would attack everything. Surya Bonaly: And I couldn't lift. Plus ils effectuent de rvolutions, plus le patineur gagne de points. Tracie Hunte: For various reasons. 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 ! There are different sounds. 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 . And I'm like, "No, I'm already here, I don't want to just maybe retire. Tracie Hunte: But when it came down to the artistic marks-. Lost in the Desert 34m Marie-Renie Le: Oh, yes. } You cantake the survey we mentioned at the beginning of this episode here:https://www.research.net/r/wnyclistenerThank you! TV Announcers: Flowers for Katarina! But on that scale, to be the only one. Did you feel that any of the difficulty was because you're black? Her performances - punctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power moves - thrilled audiences around the world. She shakes her head. "I've been doing shows with champion Evgeni Plushenko for years. More information about Sloane at www.sloane.org. Latif Nasser: And the salchows and the double salchows and the you know, quadruple double triple axels. Tracie Hunte: That she never cut her hair. These are all just words to me. Latif Nasser: Was this all going through your mind as you were skating? 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. Latif Nasser: And you could either of see it as a kind of-. Latif Nasser: They would say things like, oh-. she told the Olympic Channel podcast in 2020. Johnette Howard: Senior writer for espn.com. Surya says, you know, at that age she really didn't know too much about what was going on. Jad Abumrad: What do you do? Devenue la premire femme russir un quadruple saut aux Jeux olympiques, qui ont eu lieu pendant la comptition par quipe. TV Announcers: And here's the tiny 15 year old French girl who's captured everyone's imagination here. 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. Marie-Renie Le: Marie-Reine Le Gougne speaking. Tracie Hunte: Pretty soon she had a coach. Latif Nasser: She would do all kinds of other jumps that weren't even allowed in competition. And that makes someone like Surya much more vulnerable. Surya Bonaly is a 10-time French figure skating champion, 5-time European figure skating champion, 3-time Olympian (1992, 1994 & 1998), and a 3-time World Figure Skating silver medalist. Didier Gailhagu: White. Latif Nasser: And she goes over off to the side to a bench with her coach to await her results. So, we made some stories. Everything is about edges and leaning into those edges and leaning into the turns, and carving massive circles on the ice. She is probably going to win. 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. He says something, but you can't hear what it is. 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. Latif Nasser: But, here's what happened. When you do the back flip, do your skates go up towards the ceiling and then come back down underneath you again? 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. Surya Bonaly: They're like, "Oh, well, you did it on one foot." TV Announcers: The judges don't. She was good, you know. Matt Kielty: What happens after the-. Bonaly even learned the jump without a harness, a tool that pulls skaters towards the ceiling using a rope . TV Announcers: Bonaly has chosen not to stand on the podium. Artistic impression. Back flips! Tracie Hunte: Yeah at the various European Championships, Skate America. You do your best, it's fine. And the doctors said, "Maybe we should withdraw." Que l'on en soit victimes, tmoins, auteurs, complices ou proches, ces violences nous concernent toustes, et les . Ils refltent galement un athltisme croissant dans le patinage artistique fminin, que Bonaly a tent de stimuler tout au long de sa comptition carrire. Is that what you're saying? Surya Bonaly: Pretty good, thanks. Tracie Hunte: Out of the picture. if( navigator.sendBeacon ) { How would you convince the many people listening to-, Robert Krulwich: Wouldn't it work-. There's a line on a court, and it's either inside or it's outside. 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 . The backflip, which has. Bonaly was the French national Champion for nine years consecutively and was also the European Champion five years in a row. The sport's balletic arm . Backflips were, and still are, illegal in. Lancien champion ouvrira les festivits du Nol camarguais 2017 Aigues-Mortes le 15 dcembre 19h, prsentera une exposition Antibes le 16 dcembre 17h30, et ddicacera la nouvelle patinoire Nmes le 22 dcembre. We just mic'ed up a bunch of really good figure skaters. And I think there were a lot of people in skating that didn't want it. Matt Kielty: Did she skate in a lot of other competitions after 95? Georges Ayache, crivain et avocat, a rsid Nice. ", Bonaly told The Root that she thinks one of the reasons there haven't been a lot of Black skaters is because they think "skating [and other winter sports] are just for whites." RELATED:Skater Eric Heiden Won 5 Gold Medals, Then Became a Doctor. Robert Krulwich: What do you do? Sandra Bezic: This gentle, almost soundless quality, like a whisper across the ice. Sandra Bezic: I've bene involved in the skating world my whole life as a competitor, as an olympian, a commentator. It's a gentle carving. 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. And you're always second guessing. Surya Bonaly, 2010.jpg 821 1,125; 130 KB. Latif Nasser: So she gets up, does her final skate in front of the home crowd. The French figure skater was able to perform backflips on ice, and in 1998, she became the only person to land a. 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. The answer they giving to us was, "No, no she didn't.". Tracie Hunte: I'm just not lucky. She was athletic. It'd really help us out if you answered a couple questions. TV Announcers: Here are the marks. All the cameras crowding around and-. It's probably my last competition, I don't want to just retire like that. Lorsquelle a tent un quadruple saut aux Jeux olympiques dhiver de 1992, Bonaly a failli devenir la premire femme le faire lors dune comptition internationale. Tracie Hunte: I don't know how else to-. Travaux TER en cours. Tracie Hunte: Combination after combination. Tonya Harding: I was like, "How did you do that?". I wonder if you can hear the truck outside. I have to keep going. Jad Abumrad: What did she do? 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. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, you're absolutely right. TV Interviewers: Do you feel you were robbed tonight? Surya Bonaly: It's [inaudible 00:29:43]. 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. Surya Bonaly.jpg 709 980; 697 KB. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); Between my legs and my achilles, I was a disaster. Tracie Hunte: Elvis was actually in the crowd watching. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, she was just absolutely fearless. 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. Find your friends on Facebook. "You always need someone to be the first to do something. Tracie Hunte: Well, she retired from figure skating after the 98 Olympics. I haven't got a good word for it. Surya Bonaly: No. Surya Bonaly: I thought it was like, amazing. Latif Nasser: She's never medalled at the Olympics before. 2022 Galvanized Media. Surya Bonaly (5139144733).jpg 735 922; 621 KB. Latif Nasser: Did you feel like any of it was about race? Latif Nasser: Now, Tonya Harding, she said that she had this issue. I pulled a muscle. Also, she says you're supposed to land all your jumps on one foot. 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. In the age of "ice princesses", Surya was an anomaly, and the figure skating world feared the kind of future she represented. 10 minutes people thinking about "What should we do?" Tracie Hunte: No back flips. Don't steal my back flip. Latif Nasser: Yeah, but if she-. 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: I thought, it's still sport, sports mean challenge. Latif Nasser: I think she did. Johnette Howard: Well, it was, it was arresting. Oh, and she takes off the medal. Latif Nasser: She'd step on the ice, and people would go crazy. Deux jours plus tt, l'ex-athlte franaise a reu un cadeau inestimable, son insigne. I don't know if there was racism. See Him at 63. I skate good, but somehow, it's not for me. Will it be gold? TV Announcers: Notice her hair-. If there's one thing Surya Bonaly is remembered for, it's her backflips. Louis Aragon, pote et crivain, a vcu Nice de 1941 1942 avec sa femme Elsa Triolet. ", Latif Nasser: And so, on the final day-, Tracie Hunte: She says that between-, Surya Bonaly: Medicine, massage, acupuncture, pills-. Elvis Stojko: She wouldn't stand on it. Latif Nasser: So she ends up finishing 10th. Surya Bonaly broke many of figure skating's racial barriers, and a new documentary honors her legacy. Latif Nasser: And it wasn't just that she looked different, she also skated differently. But Surya didnt accept that criticism. TV Announcers: There's a lot there to be fixed. How do you get noticed [inaudible 00:38:34] competition? Robert Krulwich: How do you spell Surya? TV Announcers: And she finishes her program with her back to the judges. Tracie Hunte: Well, that's the question, and it's kind of complicated. And look, I've never been a huge fan of figure skating, but this story, I think, asks a really interesting question. Surya Bonaly: She did good, she did good. Elvis Stojko: For me, it was sort of a new face on the scene, like the fresh stick of gum. TV Announcers: For France, here is Surya Bonaly. Tracie Hunte: That's Tonya Harding again. Tracie Hunte: You get points for trying. 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-. Surya Bonaly: I knew it was my last Olympics, last major big competition. TV Announcers: The marks for Surya Bonaly. Tracie Hunte: And she'd do jump after jump-. TV Announcers: And is now getting ready to skate for her country. How many triple triple you want me? That is not fair. A lot. Surya Bonaly: Yeah, totally. Latif Nasser: She started skating. 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-. 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. Latif Nasser: Wow. Latif Nasser: I guess it depends on how you define first. 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. Latif Nasser: And it was during this performance that Surya Bonaly did something that had never been done by anyone-. And at the time, skating was sort of locked into this loud and fractious debate about "What do we want to be". Les rgles du sport sont impntrables et peuvent parfois tre un peu injustes. Rerouting, okay we have to go right now! xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8'); The radius could be huge, but it's still a circle. Tonya Harding: Hi Latin. An entertaining part of the event was a video shown of famous figure skaters doing backflips on the ice. TV Announcers: Oh, and the crowd do not like the marks. "I wish there was somebody back in my day who was able to do that for me," the 48-year-old retired Black athlete told TODAY. Surya Bonaly: Yeah. TV Announcers: Boy, this is going to be close. And say, "I'm not dumb, and I'm getting sick now, I'm sick of it. TV Announcers: Seven Olympic titles, seventeen World Championships. They didn't know what to do with me. So that actually takes us right back to the beginning. Those are as high as any we've seen. Team France. So there's no obvious thing about it, but it can make you feel a little paranoid, a little crazy. [emailprotected]. Latif Nasser: Yeah, these are legit skaters. 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. Met Surya at Juniors, 1990. You will see significant upgrades in-store and online this year. https://www.instagram.com/suryabonaly1/?hl=en. It must be a very confusing situation to be in. } else { Latif Nasser: Does the splits in the air. Marie Bashkirtseff, a souvent rsid Nice. Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Krulwich. Jad Abumrad: Do you have any idea what you're saying right now? "I never really quit skating. Latif Nasser: She said she just wanted something that was hers. Ctait comme, H, je peux faire des triples, alors quelle est la prochaine ? scientific studies and medical journals. UPHF 's educational offerings cover all levels of Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in many fields of study, while offering an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the curriculum. I have to say that word, elegant. It was hers for the taking. Tracie Hunte: She would see all these famous skaters. 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. Latif Nasser: Because it's a great story! 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. French? They see it was possible for me, so hopefully they think, 'Why not try it?'" Her name was given by her adopted parents Surya Varuna Claudine Bonaly. I love those show time and just, you know, those fantastic costumes. Bost aldiz izan zen Europako txapelduna , eta hiru aldiz irabazi zuen zilarrezko domina Munduko txapelketan . Latif Nasser: Warming up on the ice, you have this woman, this figure skater, Surya Bonaly. How are we going to introduce this? 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. Un acte de violence psychologique, mais aussi psychologique. TV Announcers: Her opening, a triple lutz and a triple toe. } ); And she was part of a team whose job it was to decide which girls to send to the Junior World Championships. It was so close. Latif Nasser: Out of the picture. TV Announcers: -years old from Nice in the south of France. Latif Nasser: There's just a lot of raw talent, but it's not fully - hasn't been refined. Surya Bonaly: My mom was a sport coach and she was about to be like a volunteer for a gymnastic club and skating club. The retailer's cutting-edge new offering is angering some local residents. Latif Nasser: She said that she backed Surya. Respect Sorya, je vous ai toujours admir, quelle carrire, et le salto arrire restera longtemps grav dans notre ma mmoire ! Really I was so messed up. TV Announcers: That really was a corker. Tracie Hunte: She'd come hurling into these jumps. 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