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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.
Following the ladies event, Surya Bonaly, the silver medalist, protested her second place finish during the medal ceremony. First, by refusing to stand on the podium and then, stripping her medal off of her neck after being presented it.
Petite and energetic, widow and philanthropist Irene Silverman was 82 when she mysteriously vanished from her multi-million-dollar townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side in the summer of 1998.
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
CBS News contributor David Begnaud shows how three teens at a high school in Iowa jumped into action to help save a man they saw struggling after he fell on train tracks.
Surya Bonaly: Nicole Bobek: Pair skating [3] Radka Kovaříková / René Novotný: Evgenia Shishkova / Vadim Naumov: Jenni Meno / Todd Sand: Ice dancing [4] Oksana Grishuk / Evgeni Platov: Susanna Rahkamo / Petri Kokko: Sophie Moniotte / Pascal Lavanchy