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Surya Varuna Claudine Bonaly was born in Nice, France, on 15 December 1973. [1] Her birth name was Claudine; when she was adopted out of an orphanage at the age of eight months by Suzanne Bonaly, a physical education teacher in Nice, and Georges Bonaly, a draftsman who worked for the French government, she was named after the Hindu deities Surya and Varuna.
The French figure skater, a Black pioneer in a predominantly white sport, helped define the sport that now requires athleticism and quad jumps at the elite level.
Terry Kubicka from the U.S. was the first figure skater to successfully execute a legal backflip at the Olympics, during the 1976 Winter Olympics. [3] Kubicka got the idea of using the backflip in his skating from Evy Scotvold, his coach, who wanted to help advance athleticism in figure skating and to go beyond the triple jumps that were the most difficult elements in the sport at the time.
Baiul began competing and took the silver medal at the 1993 European Championships in Helsinki, finishing second to Surya Bonaly of France. [18] Prior to the 1993 World Championships in Prague, Baiul had crashed into the boards and displaced disks in her back and neck. [8] At the event, she stopped practicing and consulted a Czech doctor. [8]
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, best known for his roles in Street Fighter and Necessary Roughness, has died.He was 61. The late actor's son Manoah confirmed his death in a Facebook post shared on Monday ...
Chouinard began skating following the 1976 Winter Olympics, which she saw on television. [4]She won silver at the 1988 Nebelhorn Trophy, gold at the 1989 Karl Schäfer Memorial, and gold at the 1990 Skate Canada International.
Hayward was born with Stargardt disease, and both her parents carry the gene, SWNS reported. The teenager said that people noticed there was an issue with her sight from age 4, but opticians ...