Latif Nasser: No, no back flips, sadly. Damn. Tracie Hunte: And eventually, what she says is-. 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. Jad Abumrad: She swings one leg over-. It was so close. Rechercher une fiche travaux. It's a three-month show I'm proud to star in even though I'm getting old. TV Announcers: Upset, no doubt. All Rights Reserved. Latif Nasser: This is Tonya Harding, and she and Surya were friends. Latif Nasser: She would do all kinds of other jumps that weren't even allowed in competition. Jad Abumrad: Why was it illegal? Jad Abumrad: That's our producer Matt Kielty. You put your fists on a table and say, "Enough is enough, that's it." "I mean, even many years after I'm like, 'Did I really finish fourth [at the Olympics]?" 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. Tracie Hunte: She's on pain killers. 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. Jad Abumrad: So she gave you the thumbs up that we got it right. Didier Gailhagu: Because female skating at that moment were nice cute girls. The retired sportsperson Surya Bonaly was born on 15 December 1973. Surya Bonaly: I have my eyes glue on those skaters. Latif Nasser: Let's dive. TV Interviewers: Did you deserve the gold medal Surya? Surya Bonaly was born on December 15, 1973, in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. 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. 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. Surya Bonaly: I knew it was my last Olympics, last major big competition. It'd really help us out if you answered a couple questions. } else { Those top three ladies: Oksana, Nancy, Lu-. Latif Nasser: So after the medal ceremony's over, she just gets mobbed by reporters. Surya Bonaly: It was very fast. Tracie Hunte: And then she got to this point where she just knew she couldn't do it. Tracie Hunte: Is that there's this fundamental tension in the sport of figure skating between artistry on one side and athleticism on the other. Sandra Bezic: No. Tracie Hunte: And when she gets to the podium, she congratulates Yuka Sato, but then-. Just give me anything you can. Sources. Tracie Hunte: Exactly, yes. Surya Bonaly: I was a bit more mature. The radius could be huge, but it's still a circle. Tracie Hunte: Not immediately. TV Announcers: And now the silver medalist. She won a 1986 World Trampoline Championships silver medal for France in team tumbling at age 12. Wait. These are all just words to me. 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. Our content is fact checked by our senior editorial staff to reflect accuracy and ensure our readers get 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. she told the Olympic Channel podcast in 2020. TV Announcers: This girl is very different. Sandra Bezic: Everything about skating is built on circles. de patineurs. 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. Surya Bonaly: She did good, she did good. She was athletic. She was black. And it's more like empathy. 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. I couldn't do anything. ', raconte lathlte. But, I can kind of see where he was going because what he was trying to do, was that he was trying to present her to the world as this radically new kind of skater. Studying at the Universit Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. Thanks. Robert Krulwich: Wait a minute. At UPHF, students also benefit from green campuses, equipped with numerous sports facilities . TV Announcers: Notice her hair-. Jad Abumrad: And does she quit at this point? au 42 balais lorsquelle tait interviewe par le magazine. Latif Nasser: And to make matters worse, Surya at that moment was already recovering from a ruptured achilles tendon. 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: What does that sound like? Tracie Hunte: For various reasons. "I don't know if race made it more difficult, but it. Surya Bonaly: Yeah. document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', function() { Latif Nasser: Japan. Elvis Stojko: I felt bad for her because I know what she was going through, where you know you outskated your competitor, and they just wouldn't give it to you. TV Announcers: And is now getting ready to skate for her country. Tracie Hunte: Yeah at the various European Championships, Skate America. Marie-Renie Le: Jamie York is our Senior Producer. How do you get noticed [inaudible 00:38:34] 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. Tracie Hunte: Well, that's the question, and it's kind of complicated. I'm the only one who did it. Surya Bonaly: Yeah, I finished ten. 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 . The sound of a beautiful skater going from edge to edge, from lean to lean. Tracie Hunte: More circly, yeah. Tonya Harding: Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. L'Amour est dans le pr . 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. Surya Bonaly: No. More information about Sloane at www.sloane.org. Tracie Hunte: Were they saying out loud? Now it's down to the judges as to whether the gold medal belongs to Sato of Japan or Bonaly of France. Tracie Hunte: Out of the picture. Latif Nasser: And she would attack everything. Tracie Hunte: She would see all these famous skaters. She was good, you know. Sandra Bezic: This gentle, almost soundless quality, like a whisper across the ice. Games Participations 3. Que faire quand tout le monde sait de quoi vous parlez ? TV Announcers: Bonaly has chosen not to stand on the podium. Elvis Stojko: She wouldn't stand on it. Surya Bonaly ne vous dira rien du contraire. ", 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." When Surya Bonaly started her ice skating career in the early 1990s, she was the only skater of color at many events in Europe. That's wnyc.org/participate, and that link is also in the show notes for this episode. Yet, commentators claimed she couldnt skate, and judges never gave her the high marks she felt she deserved. Latif Nasser: And she goes over off to the side to a bench with her coach to await her results. And she didn't seem to care about artistry. Sandra Bezic: Hi. Latif Nasser: Was this all going through your mind as you were skating? Latif Nasser: That was the World Championships, not the Olympics. Surya Bonaly: It was so much pain. Robert Krulwich: In a similar pattern? Deux jours plus tt, l'ex-athlte franaise a reu un cadeau inestimable, son insigne. Tracie Hunte: According to her, they would say the kind of things like she was too muscular, or she wasn't elegant enough. 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 . Tracie Hunte: Well, she retired from figure skating after the 98 Olympics. Latif Nasser: Eventually after about four and a half minutes, she finishes her skate-, TV Announcers: Surya Bonaly, to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Absolutely. Produced by Matt Kielty with help from Tracie Hunte. 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. The retailer's cutting-edge new offering is angering some local residents. TV Announcers: And she finishes her program with her back to the judges. Depending upon the beholder, Surya Bonaly is the most gifted and athletic figure skater in the world today, or she is a unique but squandered talent whose career seems destined to stall at. TV Announcers: Oh, this is a first for me, that's for sure. Latif Nasser: They called out Surya. I have to say that word, elegant. Surya Bonaly: Yeah. Latif Nasser: Not at Olympics, not at the World Championships, no. Tracie Hunte: Those go to Yuka Sato. And he told me he planted these stories! TV Announcers: She's heartbroken. RELATED:Skater Eric Heiden Won 5 Gold Medals, Then Became a Doctor. This article is more than 3 years old. Surya Bonaly tait ravie de retourner Nice pour son anniversaire (elle a eu 46 ans le 15 dcembre 2019). The backflip, which has. For the girl I was back then -- still trying to starve and destruct myself to fit in the status quo . Shows like Radiolab. In fact-. Louis Aragon, pote et crivain, a vcu Nice de 1941 1942 avec sa femme Elsa Triolet. Latif Nasser: Did you feel like any of it was about race? There, she coaches skating at the Las Vegas Ice Center. What has happened since this story ended? Original music from Matt, and also from Dylan Keefe. No one else could do it so they banned it. How would you convince the many people listening to-, Robert Krulwich: Wouldn't it work-. Surya Bonaly, 2010.jpg 821 1,125; 130 KB. "Illegal but astounding . Surya Bonaly is a former French skater and current coach known for her tremendous technical ability and, famously, for the one-footed illegal backflip she landed at the 1998 Olympics. The retailer is being called out over its strict security measures. Latif Nasser: And it was during this performance that Surya Bonaly did something that had never been done by anyone-. 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. 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. Ils refltent galement un athltisme croissant dans le patinage artistique fminin, que Bonaly a tent de stimuler tout au long de sa comptition carrire. TV Announcers: And the crowd here appreciate it. partir du jeudi 2 mars 2023, retrouvez Nous faire justice , le nouveau cycle de discussions des Couilles sur la table.5 ans aprs le dbut de la vague #MeToo, nous commenons, collectivement, mesurer l'impact des violences sexistes et sexuelles sur nos vies. Did you feel that any of the difficulty was because you're black? ", Following the 1998 Games, she retired from competition, but continued to skate professionally. Surya Bonaly: Because it's not my place, and I'm just disappointed. Whipping around, Bonaly landed on one blade an Olympic first that no one has dared to match. Latif Nasser: What was going on? Johnette Howard: Senior writer for espn.com. TV Announcers: Another triple. Latif Nasser: Things take a really strange turn. And I said, "Whatever, just put a zero so we can move on.". RELATED:See Figure Skater Nancy Kerrigan Now, 28 Years After Her Last Olympics. Robert Krulwich: Are they still illegal? Loretta Swit begged the writers to stop using it. Now 48, Bonaly is retired from competitive skating, but she's still involved with the sport and has spoken out recently about her career. Five to four, Sato is the new World Champion. TV Interviewers: Do you feel you were robbed tonight? They had a certain conception of female skating. And the crowd loved it. Surya Bonaly: I thought, it's still sport, sports mean challenge. How will I say? It doesn't matter that it's figure skating. How are we going to introduce this? Quite frankly, Yuka Sato is an amazing skater. What could happen if somebody with unrivaled athleticism and no aversion to risk was willing to go after it? Jad Abumrad: How did Surya feel about all this? Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Kruller. Latif Nasser: What about it felt unfair? Marie-Renie Le: It was my season. And I'm like, "No, I'm already here, I don't want to just maybe retire. Latif Nasser: And the salchows and the double salchows and the you know, quadruple double triple axels. Didier Gailhagu: And what do you want to hear? Tracie Hunte: Or, is this just a way of saying that she's black? Surya Bonaly Wiki, Age, Biography. Matt Kielty: It's a back flip! 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: You get points for trying. 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 remained involved in skating. Robert Krulwich: Don't you think that that's a little unsportsmanlike? Really I was so messed up. French? When the French international figure skater stepped onto the ice in the 1990s, the skating field was overwhelmingly white. Back flips! 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. "Illegal but . "I never really quit skating. Stop now. Is that what you're saying? It's like a really good story. She was a darer. Latif Nasser: Okay, okay. Latif Nasser: I think she did. "A stunning backflip," Newsday wrote, 20 years ago this week. Tracie Hunte: That's Tonya Harding again. Latif Nasser: Powerfulness versus prettiness. Sandra Bezic: I'd like to see her stop jumping for six months and learn to skate. See Him at 63. TV Announcers: This is her winning season. A lot. Figure Skating. I skate good, but somehow, it's not for me. Sandra Bezic: And the other thing about skating that you don't necessarily get on camera is the sound of the edge. She began working on a quad in practice in 1989 after winning the first of her nine consecutive national figure skating titles. There's a line on a court, and it's either inside or it's outside. She would be scratchy. At the same time that Nancy and Tonya were dueling it out on the ice, an explosively talented skater from France named Surya Bonaly was pushing the limits of the sport. Marie-Renie Le: Marie-Reine Le Gougne speaking. V roce 1998 na zimnch olympijskch hrch v Naganu pedvedla jako jedin olympionika v historii salto vzad na jedn noze. Latif Nasser: The sound I have in my head is like a hockey stop. Latif Nasser: Now, Tonya Harding, she said that she had this issue. Fortunately I was good at it. She continues to do ice shows occasionally, but right now I think the main thing that she's doing, she's coaching. Surya Bonaly was not your typical figure skater. : not at the World Championships, no 1973, in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France and learn to for! Had this issue first of her nine consecutive national figure skating titles, students also benefit from campuses. 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