In fact-. Tracie Hunte: Out of the picture. Jad Abumrad: Producers Latin Nasser and Tracie Hunt. Tracie Hunte: According to her, they would say the kind of things like she was too muscular, or she wasn't elegant enough. Latif Nasser: So jumping forward to the final day of the Championship, Surya is in second place. The sound of a beautiful skater going from edge to edge, from lean to lean. If there's one thing Surya Bonaly is remembered for, it's her backflips. You're the first person in the history of the human race who has done that. 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: That's Tonya Harding again. Her performancespunctuated by triple-triple jumps and other power movesthrilled audiences around the world. Latif Nasser: But this little teenage girl, Surya Bonaly, no problem. Tracie Hunte: Well, after a couple years of getting these kinds of marks, she does some soul searching. "I can see now people recognize and appreciate more than when I was. Latif Nasser: She said she just wanted something that was hers. Surya was always very like-. Linsigne de Chevalier de lordre de la Lgion dhonneur, dcern lancien athlte franais deux jours plus tard, tait un cadeau inestimable du peuple franais. I will say, from what I can tell, for the first time, that there's more than one black skater competing at the same time, internationally at least. Robert Krulwich: What about back flips? You can tell she's favoring one leg, but she manages to land a few jumps, then she falls. Latif Nasser: Okay, so to really understand just the context of all this, and the stakes of that moment, we gotta go all the way back. And everything was fine until the day before the short program. she told the Olympic Channel podcast in 2020. It's like a really good story. TV Announcers: Oh, this is a first for me, that's for sure. TV Announcers: Absolutely. Tracie Hunte: I did talk to the guy who was coaching her at the time, this guy named Didier Gailhaguet. 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. Sandra Bezic: Our fact checkers are Eva Dasher, and Michelle Harris. They were totally like woman, you know, pretty, graceful, who make those men crazy when they were watching it, you know. 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. But Surya didnt accept that criticism. Bestlifeonline.com is part of the Meredith Health Group. 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. She wins 8 out of 9 technical merits. Surya Bonaly: It's [inaudible 00:29:43]. She was adopted by white parents when she was only 18 months old and began skating at the young age of 11. Tonya Harding: The strength, and the power-. She is a notable French-American professional figure skater best known for her unique skating style and bold jumps. ", Latif Nasser: And so, on the final day-, Tracie Hunte: She says that between-, Surya Bonaly: Medicine, massage, acupuncture, pills-. Matt Kielty: But she never wins? First Olympic Games Albertville 1992. Opening up with her triple lutz. Surya Bonaly: It was so much pain. I definitely remember, when she was about to skate, my mom would be like, "The black girl is skating!" The French figure skater was able to perform backflips on ice, and in 1998, she became the only person to land a. All the cameras crowding around and-. Surya Bonaly: A figure skating pioneer Bonaly landed a backflip on one blade during her free skate. The contrast of her skin on the ice was beautiful. scientific studies and medical journals. 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. Robert Krulwich: So, she doesn't get high scores? ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb. Quite frankly, Yuka Sato is an amazing skater. And she was part of a team whose job it was to decide which girls to send to the Junior World Championships. Ice skating is largely about aesthetics. Well, we had the World Championships in Japan. Produced by Matt Kielty with help from Tracie Hunte. So there's no obvious thing about it, but it can make you feel a little paranoid, a little crazy. Latif Nasser: Yeah, you get your low fives, which sounds like it's a good mark, but that's not a good mark. Tonya Harding: The very first time that I ever saw her do a back flip, I mean, my mouth just dropped open. You're listen-, Introduction: You're listen-, Jad Abumrad: Okay, so then if What? Surya Bonaly broke many of figure skating's racial barriers, and a new documentary honors her legacy. Latif Nasser: There's just a lot of raw talent, but it's not fully - hasn't been refined. Jad Abumrad: stay listening? Tracie Hunte: That's Johnette Howard-. Latif Nasser: She goes back out on the ice. Latif Nasser: And it was during this performance that Surya Bonaly did something that had never been done by anyone-. Bonaly, * 15. prosince 1973 Nice) je bval francouzsk krasobruslaka, ptinsobn mistryn Evropy a stbrn medailistka z mistrovstv svta. Ctait comme, H, je peux faire des triples, alors quelle est la prochaine ? Sandra Bezic: This gentle, almost soundless quality, like a whisper across the ice. Jad Abumrad: And does she quit at this point? I'm broken, I'm damaged, I'm like a used car that's good for the trash. Studying at the Universit Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. Sandra Bezic: Hi. Little Girl: Look, there's Sonja Henie! She told the Olympic Channel podcast, "If I would have been white, maybe I would have my title long ago but who knows? Tracie Hunte: Pretty soon she had a coach. Surya Bonaly: I knew it was my last Olympics, last major big competition. Now it's down to the judges as to whether the gold medal belongs to Sato of Japan or Bonaly of France. 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. You do your best, it's fine. So as far as sports go, it's kind of in its own category. Frustrated at every turn, she faced disappointment after disappointment until at last, with the whole world . All Rights Reserved. Maris au premier regard 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: Sure, but picture yourself if you're in that position, and you find yourself getting second, second, you feel like you're not-. She was athletic. (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.) She knew. Latif Nasser: And that she had, that she, what was it? Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Kruller. Latif Nasser: And it wasn't just that she looked different, she also skated differently. 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. Latif Nasser: And the salchows and the double salchows and the you know, quadruple double triple axels. But on that scale, to be the only one. Tracie Hunte: Immediately starts with this double axel. Latif Nasser: The thing that becomes really apparent is that she is different! Surya Bonaly was born December 15, 1973 in Nice, France. It's my last competition.". Surya Bonaly: For me it took like 10 minutes. Jad Abumrad: How did Surya feel about all this? Search instead in Creative? Latif Nasser: I'll do my best. Born in 1973 in France Adopted Rename Surya (means Sun in Sanskrit) Birth mother & father Adopted parents lived off the grid Surya was an active toddler Focused on skating and gymnastics at the age of 4 1984 she watched the Winter Olympics Broke her ankle Joined the French National Team in Figure Skating Back flip on ice Tumbling award 1986 Awards It's a glide. 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. TV Announcers: Flowers for Katarina! Surya Bonaly: I know I did my best, I did everything. Jad Abumrad: And? And-, TV Announcers: So we've seen the girl-. Three-time World Figure Skating Champion. "At first I was almost like ashamed Maybe I'm going to be hated forever." It was banned by the figure skating federation (ISU) in 1976. Was there just the one sort of-. Wait. Sandra Bezic: I'd like to see her stop jumping for six months and learn to skate. Surya Bonaly: Unfortunately, they chose her. Elvis Stojko: With powerful spin. She just stood right next to the podium. 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. Olympian Surya Bonaly may be best remembered for rattling the judges during her 1998 Nagano Olympics free program when shegasp!performed a backflip. Latif Nasser: Let's dive. Surya Bonaly: Yes, yes, yeah. So now, you get points for doing the kinds of power moves that she was doing way back when. Read on to find out about her life today. 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. Tracie Hunte: Yeah, in 1993 in the World Championships, she comes in second. And on Surya's artistic marks, she would get scores like-. Robert Krulwich: I'm Robert Krulwich. Tracie Hunte: In 1989 when she appears at the World Championships-. That's okay. She had it all. Conflicting Tales of Birth and Background. 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. So, even though, you know, I was small, tiny, tiny, she just put me on the ice and say, "Hey, just hang around and chill on the ice." 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. Is that what you're saying? You put your fists on a table and say, "Enough is enough, that's it." Mais ce nest pas fait, et je nentrerai pas dans les codes. Jad Abumrad: Story comes from our producer Latin Nasser and also, producer Tracie Hunte. TV Announcers: Off to the dressing room for the new champion. Jad Abumrad: This is Radiolab. That's wnyc.org/participate, and that link is also in the show notes for this episode. 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. I was known for the backflip in exhibitions, not in competition, but I wanted to leave a trademark. Marie-Renie Le: Oh, yes. Tracie Hunte: But when it came down to the artistic marks-. Jad Abumrad: What did she say there? Surya Bonaly: No, not the Olympics. Latif Nasser: You're like the GPS lady. Latif Nasser: Basically, her skating style was the exact opposite end of the spectrum from Surya's. Surya Bonaly: It was my dream to, you know, to do it and I know I can. In the age of "ice princesses", Surya was an anomaly, and the figure skating world feared the kind of future she represented. I wonder if you can hear the truck outside. Sandra Bezic: And the other thing about skating that you don't necessarily get on camera is the sound of the edge. 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. Latif Nasser: Just to set this up, the World Championships are the second most important event in figure skating after the Olympics. Tracie Hunte: They would just be flying through the air. Latif Nasser: They are still illegal, yeah. They had a certain conception of female skating. Johnette Howard: Yeah, I think there's several things. 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. Travaux TER en cours. Marie-Renie Le: And the majority of the people didn't want a black skater as-. Lune des figures qui porte son nom est un salto arrire reu sur une jambe. And she didn't seem to care about artistry. Johnette Howard: They want these people to look like little ballerinas but leap into these jumps like predators. See Him at 63. 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. It was huge. Surya BONALY. 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. 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. Will it be gold? Latif Nasser: So this is Marie-Reine Le Gougne, and she is a former French figure skating official. Latif Nasser: Does the splits in the air. They didn't know what to do with me. Latif Nasser: What about it felt unfair? Just hold, hold, at this point, just hold. They sound different, but not even that different really? Latif Nasser: And, by the time 1994 rolls around, she is a favorite. If you have any concerns about the accuracy of our content, please reach out to our editors by e-mailing Surya Bonaly: Well, you know. How will I say? 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 . It's a skater who usually finishes below Surya in competitions. Tracie Hunte: She could barely speak English, she was barely 16. Latif Nasser: Afterwards, a lot of people interpreted that back flip as a big fat middle finger up to the entire skating world. Elvis Stojko: Like oh my go, holy (bleep), she's actually doing this? ! Latif Nasser: Warming up on the ice, you have this woman, this figure skater, Surya Bonaly. Jad Abumrad: So why was she getting bad marks to begin with? Surya Bonaly, 2010.jpg 821 1,125; 130 KB. She is probably going to win. 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. 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-. How are we going to introduce this? Latif Nasser: I guess it depends on how you define first. Bravo !!! So three years in a row. And that is our sport, which leads to Surya. When the French international figure skater stepped onto the ice in the 1990s, the skating field was overwhelmingly white. "A stunning backflip," Newsday wrote, 20 years ago this week. I keep my eyes open. Surya Bonaly: No. Elvis Stojko: Like say a Tonya Harding-style skating. Elvis Stojko: I came down right on my face. "But it is what it is. Sandra Bezic: Soren Wheeler is Senior Editor. xhr.send(payload); 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. Surya says, you know, at that age she really didn't know too much about what was going on. Whipping around, Bonaly landed on one blade which was an Olympic first that no one has dared to match. How many triple triple you want me? And she's trying to be more graceful, more beautiful, more elegant. Marie-Renie Le: Jamie York is our Senior Producer. Didier Gailhagu: Yeah, she was still a young baby-. Latif Nasser: And she would attack everything. "You always need someone to be the first to do something. Tracie Hunte: More circly, yeah. Latif Nasser: Things take a really strange turn. L'Amour est dans le pr . Unlike her competitors ice princesses who hid behind demure smilesSurya made her feelings known. Robert Krulwich: Are they still illegal? We just need time and you know, power from some people.". Those are as high as any we've seen. See Him at 63. "We don't want her because she's black? Tracie Hunte: Were they saying out loud? 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. Jad Abumrad: Before we get started, wondering if we could ask your help on a little something. Tracie Hunte: And actually as a commentator-. When you do the back flip, do your skates go up towards the ceiling and then come back down underneath you again? Latif Nasser: Okay, okay. Five to four, Sato is the new World Champion. No one else could do it so they banned it. It's super slushy. Georges Ayache, crivain et avocat, a rsid Nice. 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-. More information about Sloane at www.sloane.org. Jad Abumrad: Thanks for listening. Sandra Bezic: Thank you for listening. TV Announcers: They stand as one here at Makuhari Event Center for the local favorite Yuka Sato. The caption said: Surya landed a backflip on one foot at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Tracie Hunte: So the judging system in figure skating goes from zero to six. What happens? Elvis Stojko: She wouldn't stand on it. 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. People recognize and appreciate more than when surya bonaly enceinte was what to do it and I know I can I! 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