TV Announcers: And it's second place for Surya. They had a certain conception of female skating. Marie-Renie Le: No. Johnette Howard: Yeah, I think there's several things. Jad Abumrad: Story comes from our producer Latin Nasser and also, producer Tracie Hunte. TV Announcers: She really is amazing. It's a glide. Marie-Renie Le: And the majority of the people didn't want a black skater as-. 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. Devenue la premire femme russir un quadruple saut aux Jeux olympiques, qui ont eu lieu pendant la comptition par quipe. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. And everything was fine until the day before the short program. That has to stop." 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. What happens? Latif Nasser: Well I asked her. Tracie Hunte: And she hits her first jump, crowd loves it. Marie-Renie Le: Marie-Reine Le Gougne speaking. Surya Bonaly: I had a special thing in my backpack and said, "Hey, I can do it. And I was like "Surya, just get on the podium, take the medal". ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb. Jad Abumrad: What did she say there? It doesn't matter that it's figure skating. And-, TV Announcers: So we've seen the girl-. Latif Nasser: Warming up on the ice, you have this woman, this figure skater, Surya Bonaly. Bonaly became an American citizen in 2004 and lives in Las Vegas. Tracie Hunte: She'd come hurling into these jumps. 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. TV Announcers: Yuka's one of my favorite skaters, but she doesn't have the combination jump like Bonaly did, so she's going to need all her jumps. Shows like Radiolab. You're listen-, Introduction: You're listen-, Jad Abumrad: Okay, so then if What? Latif Nasser: Yeah, these are legit skaters. ", Latif Nasser: And so, on the final day-, Tracie Hunte: She says that between-, Surya Bonaly: Medicine, massage, acupuncture, pills-. You put your fists on a table and say, "Enough is enough, that's it." Surya Bonaly: I had new choreography, changed my whole skating roles, changed my coaches. 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. a t victime de violences physiques et psychologiques de la part de sa propre mre, qui a t sa principale motivation. Tracie Hunte: They were also-. Jad Abumrad: We'll be back right after this Zamboni break. Tracie Hunte: Out of the picture. See Him at 63. Again. Bestlifeonline.com is part of the Meredith Health Group. TV Announcers: That's a really fast step sequence. Surya Bonaly ( Nice, 15 de dezembro de 1973) uma ex- patinadora artstica francesa, que competia no individual feminino . TV Announcers: Her opening, a triple lutz and a triple toe. Christian Estrosi, le maire de Nice, est celui qui la oubli. Skater Eric Heiden Won 5 Gold Medals, Then Became a Doctor. Latif Nasser: So when Surya was skating, would she have that sound? Tracie Hunte: That's Sandra Bezic. She was good, you know. Black girl magic TV Announcers: Triple toe loop. Surya Bonaly: Yeah, no. It's shady as (beep). How many triple triple you want me? Surya Bonaly: Well, I did start skating because of my mom, actually. Surya was always very like-. But Surya Bonaly was not the skating talent they'd expected: eccentric, defiant, athletic - and black. Tracie Hunte: For various reasons. Jaurais aim moccuper de la relve. Latif Nasser: Yeah, you get your low fives, which sounds like it's a good mark, but that's not a good mark. Find your friends on Facebook. And it couldn't be totally illegal because as long as land on one foot, "Maybe we will think about it.". Latif Nasser: And you could either of see it as a kind of-. Browse 344 skater surya bonaly stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Surya Bonaly: And usually you skate, you perform, you smile in front of the camera, boom, they give you the marks. Sandra Bezic: And on behalf of everyone at Radiolab-. He says something, but you can't hear what it is. In the age of "ice princesses", Surya was an anomaly, and the figure skating world feared the kind of future she represented. Latif Nasser: And then what comes to her is that there is this move that she has in her repertoire that she can do, but it's illegal. Surya Bonaly: I don't know, I'm just not lucky. Latif Nasser: But not any old back flip. And after that, you kind of see a difference. Elvis Stojko: She wouldn't stand on it. Didier Gailhagu: We used the press very well. So there's no obvious thing about it, but it can make you feel a little paranoid, a little crazy. Every day, I tried to do the best that I could do. These are all just words to me. 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. 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. I keep my eyes open. Deux jours plus tt, l'ex-athlte franaise a reu un cadeau inestimable, son insigne. 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 . Matt Kielty: After the ceremony? Sandra Bezic: And the other thing about skating that you don't necessarily get on camera is the sound of the edge. Media in category "Surya Bonaly" The following 16 files are in this category, out of 16 total. Tonya Harding: Our staff includes-, Sandra Bezic: Simon Adler, Brenna Farrell, David Gebel, Marie-Renie Le: Matt Kielty, Robert Kruller, Tonya Harding: Latin Nasser. Jacques Barbri, crivain franais de science-fiction, n le 14 juillet 1954 Nice. TV Announcers: I think this is a form of protest. 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. Up-and-Down Fortunes on the Ice. You were really terrific. A New Approach. And I think there were a lot of people in skating that didn't want it. xhr.open('POST', 'https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', true); You can tell she's favoring one leg, but she manages to land a few jumps, then she falls. Tonya Harding: Hi Latin. Tracie Hunte: Well, after a couple years of getting these kinds of marks, she does some soul searching. Surya Bonaly: It was my dream to, you know, to do it and I know I can. 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. Jad Abumrad: What do you do? 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 Hunte: Anyone. Wait. 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. 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. Oh, and she takes off the medal. When Surya Bonaly started her ice skating career in the early 1990s, she was the only skater of color at many events in Europe. Latif Nasser: So this is Marie-Reine Le Gougne, and she is a former French figure skating official. Latif Nasser: It's illegal because it's so dangerous. TV Announcers: Surya has not cut her hair since her birth. Recherchez toute l'info travaux et les horaires modifis qui impactent votre ligne en tlchargeant votre fiche horaires. And I said, "Whatever, just put a zero so we can move on.". "We don't want her because she's black? Tracie Hunte: What happens next is one of these moments that really defines Surya's story for a lot of people. Her performances - punctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power moves - thrilled audiences around the world. And he told me he planted these stories! Tracie Hunte: And then she lands on one foot. 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. So she was just this sort of blip on the skating scene, where no one was like her before, and there hasn't really been anyone like her since. Met Surya at Juniors, 1990. Latif Nasser: Again, that's Sandra Bezic. 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. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, totally. TV Announcers: She's heartbroken. Jad Abumrad: Were they professional skaters? TV Interviewers: What did you think of those marks? Bonaly was born on December 15, 1973 in Nice, France to an Ivorian father and a mother from Runion, Madagascar. Sandra Bezic: No, no, no, no. But, In Surya's case. And Surya was daring. Tracie Hunte: Or, is this just a way of saying that she's black? 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 ); Latif Nasser: And she goes over off to the side to a bench with her coach to await her results. } Now it's down to the judges as to whether the gold medal belongs to Sato of Japan or Bonaly of France. Hailing from Nice, France, her adoptive parents named her after the Sankrit word for "the sun." Shining athletically from an early age, she burst onto . This article is more than 3 years old. Tracie Hunte: She was kind of hard on Surya. TV Announcers: She competed for France in 1994 and just missed the podium. TV Interviewers: Did you deserve the gold medal Surya? Surya Bonaly: No. They've changed the scoring system. Latif Nasser: How are you doing? Que faire quand tout le monde sait de quoi vous parlez ? 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. Surya Bonaly: Especially for ladies, they like to keep the girls pretty. Some good ones, do you know what I mean? Tracie Hunte: I don't know how else to-. Latif Nasser: She would do all kinds of other jumps that weren't even allowed in competition. She just stood right next to the podium. An entertaining part of the event was a video shown of famous figure skaters doing backflips on the ice. In the 1980s and '90s, competitive figure skating enthralled me. "I've been in Las Vegas since end of 1999," she told CY Interview in 2020. Tracie Hunte: In 1992, at the age of 18-. Latif Nasser: The margin was so close. Latif Nasser: She just stopped before getting on the podium. It was very subtle. 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. We adhere to structured guidelines for sourcing information and linking to other resources, including TV Announcers: Style and grace. 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. At UPHF, students also benefit from green campuses, equipped with numerous sports facilities . Johnette Howard: Well, it was, it was arresting. Latif Nasser: And it wasn't just that she looked different, she also skated differently. Tracie Hunte: In 1989 when she appears at the World Championships-. TV Announcers: The judges don't. Her mother was a sports coach who taught multiple disciplines from gymnastics to figure skating. Tonya Harding: Hope that's okay. Tracie Hunte: He puts the medal around Surya's neck, shakes her hand, and then he holds onto her hand, and just kind of pulls her onto the podium. Tracie Hunte: She could barely speak English, she was barely 16. 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 . Latif Nasser: Elvis Stojko, too. Latif Nasser: Did you feel like any of it was about race? How will I say? Or maybe now will be nice if we'll do maybe four times a week. Tracie Hunte: Exactly, yes. Quite frankly, Yuka Sato is an amazing skater. Jad Abumrad: That is just creeped out, honestly that's just weird. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, you're absolutely right. she told the Olympic Channel podcast in 2020. They first called out Yuka, she comes out from this tunnel backstage onto the ice, waves, smiles at everybody. 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. Latif Nasser: Injuries, and some turned pro and stuff, but whatever. Tracie Hunte: The whole crowd is booing. Jad Abumrad: So she never gets first? Tonya Harding: The strength, and the power-. She was black. Those top three ladies: Oksana, Nancy, Lu-. 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. Surya Bonaly: No, not the Olympics. 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. 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. Just hold, hold, at this point, just hold. 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 . RELATED: To see more famous athletes of the past now, sign up for our daily newsletter. Sources. Jad Abumrad: stay listening? "A stunning backflip," Newsday wrote, 20 years ago this week. That's wnyc.org/participate, and that link is also in the show notes for this episode. Latif Nasser: But this little teenage girl, Surya Bonaly, no problem. Backflips were, and still are, illegal in. Jad Abumrad: So they didn't change their mind about the back flip in the end. And, you know, I spent lots of hours there, just waiting for my mom. And that makes someone like Surya much more vulnerable. Surya Bonaly broke many of figure skating's racial barriers, and a new documentary honors her legacy. Latif Nasser: So she gets up, does her final skate in front of the home crowd. Really I was so messed up. So knock on wood, I hope I'll be able to die in peace. Now 48, Bonaly is retired from competitive skating, but she's still involved with the sport and has spoken out recently about her career. Did you feel that any of the difficulty was because you're black? Jad Abumrad: So why was she getting bad marks to begin with? var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); Elvis Stojko: To her skating. Judges prioritized what they saw as grace. Tracie Hunte: She's on pain killers. Latif Nasser: The sound I have in my head is like a hockey stop. Latif Nasser: No, no back flips, sadly. 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. Tracie Hunte: No back flips. Surya Bonaly: It was so much pain. Elvis Stojko: With powerful spin. Tracie Hunte: And that's when the judges basically pick first, second, and third. How are we going to introduce this? Search instead in Creative? Sandra Bezic: This gentle, almost soundless quality, like a whisper across the ice. And she's trying to be more graceful, more beautiful, more elegant. 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. And if I do, you don't care. 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-. 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-. Ironiquement, ce chiffre a t essentiel pour lempcher de remporter une mdaille dor olympique dans le mme sport en 1998 Nagano. TV Announcers: That really was a corker. TV Announcers: We're here live at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning in Japan. Surya Bonaly a avou Ouest-France en 2015 quelle se sentait vraiment dpasse par la douleur. 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