Willing to change the rules for a brighter future | Surya Bonaly | TEDxTorino
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- Опубліковано 5 бер 2018
- Surya talks about her life, from the childhood in France until the Olympics. A story of courage, broken rules, but also cooperation - between her and her family, as she wouldn’t have achieved all of this alone, and between athletes around the world, as sports can overcome also the most rigid national barriers. Surya Bonaly is a French ex-ice skater.
Born in Nice, but native from Réunion, Surya was adopted when she was just 18 months old and started skating at the age of 11. French National Champion for 9 consecutive years and European for 5, she was the first female skater in history to try a quadruple jump at the 1989 European Championships. She also competed at the Winter Olympics in 1990, where she gained the 5th place, and in 1994, where she arrived 4th.
However, she is famous not only for her medals: in fact, she is the only skater in the world that can do a backflip landing on one foot. Once lost the possibility to win, Surya did this jump - forbidden in the official competitions - in her free skating at the 1998 Olympics, being so penalized by the judges, but celebrated by the audience.
Today, she is an ice-skating coach in the US This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
No one remembers those skaters who competed against her. This woman is a very talented and gifted athlete.
SHE WAS ROBBED SO MANY TIMES!!! SHE WAS AND STILL REMAINS THE BEST!!!!! #1. IT'S PAINFUL TO SEE THE RACISM FROM THE JUDGE'S AND IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO GIVE ANY GREAT SKATER A LOWER METAL THAN WHAT THEY DESERVE- JUST SHAMEFUL HOW THEY ROBBED HER. BRAVO TO HER & WHAT SHE ENDURED AND FOUND THE STRENGTH & WILL TO KEEP COMPETING RELENTLESSLY & SHE'S JUST A BREATH OF ORIGINALITY & GRACE & IS A ONE OF A KIND WINNER & ATHLETE!!! MORE THAN SPECIAL...TY SO MUCH ❤❤❤
Surya is currently choreographing my new program for the next year, and I love her style of skating. She is pushing me and other skaters to embrace other types of artistic skating. She is such a kind, and dedicated person! Go Surya!
As a young girl, I used to watch her skate and just be in AWE of her talent! NOBODY could do what she did. Her hairstyle was regal, and she had no equal. Beautiful, graceful, fearless, and powerful. That is Surya Bonaly on ice. Indisputably, she is THE G.O.A.T. and should be in all halls of fame dedicated to ice skating. Point blank periodt!
Surya is and always will be one of the classiest, kindest, and (at the same time) ferocious athletes in history.
I use to watch Surya. She was something to behold! Remember Nadia Comaneci? She did elements in Gymnastics so far above the rest, such that they changed scoring system, because she was actually beyond the scoring system of 10... which they had to give her. For Surya she NEVER got the scores or recognition she truly deserved. They said her incredible backflip was illegal. She literally did a backflip on ice and the snubbed it😳 There was really nothing she could do if that didn’t do it. I highly doubt she would have been treated this way had she not been a woman of color.
Has Surya Bonaly been inducted to the Figure Skating Hall of Fame yet? If not, she should be. She really pushed the sport's boundaries by adding acrobatics to her technical repertoire. Nowadays, we see skaters performing unconventional elements -- like cartwheels -- in their programs.
They should make a movie about her instead of Tonya
I agree. Someone make a MOVIE about her!
I never seen anybody do a backwards flip and land a one foot!!! Powerful skater!!! Need to make a movie about her life!!!
She is the world's best woman skate ever, no other than! She was robbed many times because of racism and insecurity.
She’s aged very well. Lovely gal.
A terrific moving speech especially since English is not her first language. She spoke succinctly and with an important message. Lovely lady and badass skater :)
Surya Bonaly c’est toute ma jeunesse. Elle a été un formidable exemple pour les petites filles de la diaspora noire en France. Une véritable source d’inspiration. Quel talent, quelle présence et quelle grâce. Merci à vous de nous avoir fait rêver tout au long de votre carrière !!!!!
She will forever be the best of ice skating
I met Surya and her mother a few years ago. They were both extremely nice people.
She is a beautiful person
She presented the best of her talent, the true herself instead of fit herself into a frame the sport and judge defined. She is remarkable. Outstanding. Bravo, girl. You don’t need to be the judges’ expected ice skating princess. They need an open mind.
She was phenomenal.
Surya is a rock star. Pure magic on ice!