Tracie Hunte: So it's a jump forward, but rewind, we're in Nagano, Japan, 1998 Winter Olympics. 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 . ", 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." And at the time, skating was sort of locked into this loud and fractious debate about "What do we want to be". The caption said: Surya landed a backflip on one foot at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Latif Nasser: Eventually after about four and a half minutes, she finishes her skate-, TV Announcers: Surya Bonaly, to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Opening up with her triple lutz. TV Announcers: Here are the marks. TV Announcers: Sixteen year old Oksana Bayul. If you have any concerns about the accuracy of our content, please reach out to our editors by e-mailing No? You're like recalculating. It is available for viewing on YouTube as "Backflips on the Ice" and includes Olympic champions Robin Cousins, Brian Orser, Scott Hamilton, Surya Bonaly, and more. Latif Nasser: So she gets up, does her final skate in front of the home crowd. TV Interviewers: Are they unfair to you Surya? Jad Abumrad: What do you do? All the cameras crowding around and-. She shakes her head. Surya Bonaly: Yeah, it's mine. The claim that Surya Bonaly, a French figure skater who rose to prominence in the early-mid 90s, was the reason the backflip was banned from figure skating is false. Surya Bonaly tait ravie de retourner Nice pour son anniversaire (elle a eu 46 ans le 15 dcembre 2019). But it was figure skating that had her heart. Jad Abumrad: What do you mean? Tracie, we'll miss you. I improved like every week, every month you can see a difference. Tracie Hunte: S-U-R-Y-A. Lorsque vous avez matris un certain aspect, vous devez continuellement vous efforcer de lamliorer en essayant quelque chose de nouveau et de diffrent plutt que de vous en tenir aux mmes vieilles choses. She wins 8 out of 9 technical merits. Surya says, you know, at that age she really didn't know too much about what was going on. I couldn't do anything. Surya Bonaly ( Nice, 15 de dezembro de 1973) uma ex- patinadora artstica francesa, que competia no individual feminino . TV Announcers: And is now getting ready to skate for her country. Ever. Let's get back to our story about Surya Bonaly, or Bonaly as it's said in French, from producers Tracie Hunt and Latin Nasser. Oh, and she takes off the medal. How many triple triple you want me? Black girl magic Latif Nasser: Not at Olympics, not at the World Championships, no. She actually travels to California and worked with Frank Carroll, who's this legendary American coach. They first called out Yuka, she comes out from this tunnel backstage onto the ice, waves, smiles at everybody. Surya Bonaly: It happened all the time. It's like a really good story. Les horaires modifis sont aussi visibles lorsque vous recherchez une gare. Didier Gailhagu: And what do you want to hear? But Surya Bonaly was not the skating talent they'd expected: eccentric, defiant, athletic - and black. 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. Don't steal my back flip. Jad Abumrad: Story comes from our producer Latin Nasser and also, producer Tracie Hunte. Latif Nasser: And so by the age of ten, she decides she wants to spend her life figure skating. Tracie Hunte: More circly, yeah. Latif Nasser: That one wasn't as close, but she was second again for the third year. Radiolab is produced by Jab Abumrad. Our content is fact checked by our senior editorial staff to reflect accuracy and ensure our readers get Latif Nasser: All right. Closing Credits: End of message. You're the first person in the history of the human race who has done that. TV Announcers: That's a really fast step sequence. Didier Gailhagu: Because female skating at that moment were nice cute girls. TV Announcers: That really was a corker. But when I asked Surya if that's what was happening, she said-. she told the Olympic Channel podcast in 2020. Ela foi trs vezes medalhista de prata do Campeonato Mundial (1993-1995), conquistou cinco medalhas de ouro e uma de prata em campeonatos europeus e foi eneacampe do campeonato nacional francs. ! 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. TV Announcers: Off to the dressing room for the new champion. Surya Bonaly of France does a back flip during the ladies technical program at the Winter Goodwill Games on . Latif Nasser: And she goes over off to the side to a bench with her coach to await her results. Is that what you're saying? Elvis Stojko told us that one time he tried it and it did not go well. Elvis Stojko: For me, it was sort of a new face on the scene, like the fresh stick of gum. And-. Latif Nasser: She's in this gold and blue sequin outfit, and she starts her routine. Latif Nasser: They would say things like, oh-. Or maybe now will be nice if we'll do maybe four times a week. Latif Nasser: The camera zooms in on her face and she is just weeping. Thanks. That has to stop." It must be a very confusing situation to be in. Well, how about every day?" She won a 1986 World Trampoline Championships silver medal for France in team tumbling at age 12. Robert Krulwich: She came in second, that's not bad. 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. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, she was just absolutely fearless. Many times I have heard that word. She was athletic. Particularly injury problems. Latif Nasser: Was this all going through your mind as you were skating? Latif Nasser: Yeah, she was doing a lot. So now, you get points for doing the kinds of power moves that she was doing way back when. And she was part of a team whose job it was to decide which girls to send to the Junior World Championships. Surya Bonaly: Yes, yes, yeah. Jad Abumrad: Thanks for listening. } TV Announcers: Oh, this is a first for me, that's for sure. Latif Nasser: She started skating. Latif Nasser: So that's exactly the problem. Jad Abumrad: So she gave you the thumbs up that we got it right. They're slated to shut down by the end of March. Sandra Bezic: I'd like to see her stop jumping for six months and learn to skate. Tonya Harding: She was just so exciting, and there was just no boundaries for her. Bestlifeonline.com is part of the Meredith Health Group. And it's more like empathy. Backflips were, and still are, illegal in. A lot. I was just trying to be happy. This is Sandra Bezic. And that's something that she couldn't do because she was jumping on straight lines. I had the courage to say because she was black. Surya Bonaly: They're like, "Oh, well, you did it on one foot." Surya Bonaly: Unfortunately, they chose her. Tracie Hunte: For various reasons. And I said, "Whatever, just put a zero so we can move on.". Cela est d en partie au nouveau systme de notation qui a t tabli en 2006, qui rcompense les patineurs pour les composants de patinage score lev comme les sauts en quad en augmentant le nombre de rvolutions quils effectuent. It's a glide. They see it was possible for me, so hopefully they think, 'Why not try it?'" Surya Bonaly: I had new choreography, changed my whole skating roles, changed my coaches. Latif Nasser: Wow. Latif Nasser: It's illegal because it's so dangerous. Latif Nasser: Yeah, but if she-. Surya Bonaly redefined a sport that wasn't built for her. Tracie Hunte: All those words used to criticize her skating-. I know I'm going to crash, I can't do it, my leg is not with me any more.". Surya Bonaly was not your typical figure skater. Next skater. Latif Nasser: Basically, her skating style was the exact opposite end of the spectrum from Surya's. Did she get nailed? TV Announcers: Oh my goodness! Latif Nasser: I'll do my best. TV Interviewers: Are the judges unfair to you? Tracie Hunte: Combination after combination. It was just one of the best skates of her life. 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. Tracie Hunte: Yes! 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. If someone else did it later in a competition, I would have been pissed because I was kind of the one who created it, so now it's in everyone's memory! Latif Nasser: Because it's a great story! Back flips! Danse avec les Stars . Elvis Stojko: Like oh my go, holy (bleep), she's actually doing this? Tracie Hunte: Now, I cannot imagine how Surya felt in that moment, but I didn't necessarily think that these prejudiced people had denied her this. TV Announcers: There's the triple salchow. Latif Nasser: Yeah, just for daring. TV Announcers: The marks for Surya Bonaly. La diffusion du documentaire Noirs en France ce mardi sur France 2 a fait ressurgir des souvenirs douloureux pour certains Franais, l'image de la mdaille d'argent de Surya Bonaly aux . Tracie Hunte: They were also-. They've been forced to shutter over safety hazards. It was so close. Latif Nasser: But when we ask people, "Did she change the sport? "Sans lui, sans elle " ralis par Claude Couderc - Dargoole cerca e cataloga i video presenti sui pi famosi portali di video sharing del Web. And if I do, you don't care. Travaux TER en cours. She lives in Minnesota and she's coaching young skaters. Bonaly was the focus of an episode of the 2019 Netflix docuseries Losers about athletes and their experiences with defeats. Tracie Hunte: And then she lands on one foot. Bonaly, * 15. prosince 1973 Nice) je bval francouzsk krasobruslaka, ptinsobn mistryn Evropy a stbrn medailistka z mistrovstv svta. She began working on a quad in practice in 1989 after winning the first of her nine consecutive national figure skating titles. TV Announcers: And here's the tiny 15 year old French girl who's captured everyone's imagination here. This week, we lace up our skates and tell a story about loving a sport that doesnt love you back, and being judged in front of the world according to rules you dont understand. Surya Bonaly: Yeah. She took birth at her parents' home in Nice, France. Now I'm preparing to go on a big tour in Europe for Holiday on Ice. If there's one thing Surya Bonaly is remembered for, it's her backflips. Showing Editorial results for surya bonaly. Surya Bonaly: I know, I was like, "It's the only time," and I guess-. Matt Kielty: What happens after the-. Jad Abumrad: So she never gets first? a t victime de violences physiques et psychologiques de la part de sa propre mre, qui a t sa principale motivation. Surya Bonaly was born on December 15, 1973, in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. Tracie Hunte: She does a back flip. Latif Nasser: Starts her program-. TV Announcers: She competed for France in 1994 and just missed the podium. 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. Those top three ladies: Oksana, Nancy, Lu-. TV Announcers: And she finishes her program with her back to the judges. TV Announcers: Raw talent there. 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. So if you have a second, there is a survey at wnyc.org/participate. There's the sound of Brian Boitano's back crossovers that used to excite me when I was in the rink with him. Surya Bonaly: I thought it was like, amazing. Surya Bonaly: It was my dream to, you know, to do it and I know I can. Latif Nasser: I'm really curious about what happened at the medal ceremony in 1994. Latif Nasser: She said, "Never mind, that's life, I'm used to it.". I was competing on the national team [in France] for 12 years, and there are [kids] who watched me for years and years performing while they were small. And after that, you kind of see a difference. 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. Robert Krulwich: I mean, the idea that she's some kind of black forest princess or something? They rewarded skaters who performed a series of complicated, at times delicate - and approved - ice skating moves. TV Announcers: Now Yuka Sato, the 21 year old from Tokyo-. Did she change figure skating?" Surya Bonaly: I prefer to hit a triple triple jump, then [inaudible 00:10:14]. 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-. Lune des figures qui porte son nom est un salto arrire reu sur une jambe. The installment covered Bonaly facing racism in a primarily white sport and her decision to do a backflip at the Olympics, even though it was not allowed. Tracie spent the last few months with us producing that story as part of the WNYC Fellow Program. ", Bonaly has also opened up about being one of few Black skaters, and how she doesn't know how much racism may have affected her career. Mais ce nest pas fait, et je nentrerai pas dans les codes. Surya Bonaly was not your typical figure skater. Jad Abumrad: We'll be back right after this Zamboni break. 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. And say, "I'm not dumb, and I'm getting sick now, I'm sick of it. Tracie Hunte: What happens next is one of these moments that really defines Surya's story for a lot of people. Robert Krulwich: What do you do? An exceptional track record. 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 ! TV Announcers: And the crowd here appreciate it. I pulled a muscle. Fortunately I was good at it. He says something, but you can't hear what it is. "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. "I never really quit skating. Latif Nasser: She said she just wanted something that was hers. 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. Robert Krulwich: I mean all these other girls have worked just as hard as she has, one presumes. Tracie Hunte: According to her, they would say the kind of things like she was too muscular, or she wasn't elegant enough. Tracie Hunte: She skates out onto the ice, she waves, but her face isn't smiling. What was the problem? 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. And she didn't seem to care about artistry. And Surya was sort of the epitome of almost the endpoint. Tracie Hunte: But when it came down to the artistic marks-. Tracie Hunte: Were just a little bit more loaded. Surya Bonaly: Because it's not my place, and I'm just disappointed. TV Announcers: Bonaly has chosen not to stand on the podium. 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. "A stunning backflip," Newsday wrote, 20 years ago this week. So as far as sports go, it's kind of in its own category. Surya Bonaly: Well, never mind. Original music from Matt, and also from Dylan Keefe. And even if you spill, if you fail at those moves, you still get points. If you're talking about Serena Williams, whose facing a lot of these same kinds of criticisms, it doesn't matter. First Olympic Games Albertville 1992. Thodore de Banville, auteur de La Mer de Nice. Latif Nasser: Warming up on the ice, you have this woman, this figure skater, Surya Bonaly. How do you get noticed [inaudible 00:38:34] competition? And, you know, I spent lots of hours there, just waiting for my mom. Un acte de violence psychologique, mais aussi psychologique. Surya Bonaly: I thought, it's still sport, sports mean challenge. Tracie Hunte: A lot of them were like, "Eh". xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8'); Surya BONALY. 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. You cantake the survey we mentioned at the beginning of this episode here:https://www.research.net/r/wnyclistenerThank you! Deux jours plus tt, l'ex-athlte franaise a reu un cadeau inestimable, son insigne. 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. 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 . Seriously. And then, after about a minute. This is Tonya calling. Matt Kielty: After the ceremony? TV Announcers: They stand as one here at Makuhari Event Center for the local favorite Yuka Sato. And the crowd loved it. It doesn't matter that it's figure skating. They had a certain conception of female skating. Now it's down to the judges as to whether the gold medal belongs to Sato of Japan or Bonaly of France. Tracie Hunte: Oksana Bayul got gold-, TV Announcers: Nancy Kerrigan is physically-, Tracie Hunte: Nancy Kerrigan got silver, Chen Lu got the bronze, and fourth place was Surya. We're at the Olympics in Nagano. Her performancespunctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power movesthrilled audiences around the world. And she didnt seem to care about artistry. Latif Nasser: Injuries, and some turned pro and stuff, but whatever. There's a line on a court, and it's either inside or it's outside. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, http://www.radiolab.org/story/here-are-skating-routines-we-cant-stop-watching/. Latif Nasser: And you could either of see it as a kind of-. It's my last competition.". 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. Latif Nasser: Cause it's really dangerous. Latif Nasser: How are you doing? Tracie Hunte: She'd strike a pose, and then just take off. She was determined to hone the difficult maneuver,. Matt Kielty: Did she skate in a lot of other competitions after 95? Marie-Renie Le: It was my season. xhr.send(payload); Sandra Bezic: Soren Wheeler is Senior Editor. Latif Nasser: This is Tonya Harding, and she and Surya were friends. "But it is what it is. Jad Abumrad: Were they professional skaters? Black?". Latif Nasser: Again. Tracie Hunte: That's Johnette Howard-. Surya Bonaly: My mom was a sport coach and she was about to be like a volunteer for a gymnastic club and skating club. I'm the only one who did it. TV Announcers: Surya has not cut her hair since her birth. Sandra Bezic: We all know Yuka's skating. And this is where things kind of get confusing. TV Announcers: It's just the opposite from the technical marks, 8 of the 9 judges, all but the French judge, giving her higher marks. How would you convince the many people listening to-, Robert Krulwich: Wouldn't it work-. They were totally like woman, you know, pretty, graceful, who make those men crazy when they were watching it, you know. I have to keep going. Shows like Radiolab. Lia Beck is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia. Tracie Hunte: Well, she retired from figure skating after the 98 Olympics. RELATED: To see more famous athletes of the past now, sign up for our daily newsletter. Marie-Renie Le: Jamie York is our Senior Producer. TV Announcers: Style and grace. Latif Nasser: Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis Stojko is in the building. "I know you don't want me to, but I'm going to do this anyway." The radius could be huge, but it's still a circle. Are there back flips everywhere? It's just a hum. Latif Nasser: And to make matters worse, Surya at that moment was already recovering from a ruptured achilles tendon. Bonaly credited her ability to perform triple jumps with ease to her gymnastics background. Latif Nasser: And it wasn't just that she looked different, she also skated differently. Surya Bonaly: Well, you know. Surya Bonaly a avou Ouest-France en 2015 quelle se sentait vraiment dpasse par la douleur. And we had three possibilities. TV Announcers: Triple toe loop. V roce 1998 na zimnch olympijskch hrch v Naganu pedvedla jako jedin olympionika v historii salto vzad na jedn noze. Tracie Hunte: And she hits her first jump, crowd loves it. It'd really help us out if you answered a couple questions. 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.

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