Cassandra Todd you are correct she is the queen and they have loads of envy say to say

That's what I saw too. I didn't see a princess I saw a Queen 👸🏾.

she is perfect at what she does don't tell her how to do her stuff on ice at all

she was gift of talent in her don't judge a book by its cover at all

Na giz de ESAI

Willie Miles I sadly agree with that. But it’s the sad truth .

She was white once upon a time.She is called Tonya Harding. Same problem- great athlete, clean jumps, not artistic. Awkward choppy transitions.

mylist0song ummmmmmmm ...... hmmmm yea I wouldn’t say that Tonya and Surya were the same. Lol i would say that I believe that they both weren’t favored by the judges. I think they were both athletic in their skating but where they both differ is one didn’t let the drama or scandal break her , where as one unfortunately did. And it caused for her to not make the best decisions. I don’t know how Suryas upbringing was but from what I’ve learned about tonya watching videos and reading is that she had a very sad and rough one which I believe contributed to her downfall. But who knows ? Maybe we wouldn’t of still be talking about Tonya if Nancy never gotten hit on the knees that night 🤷🏽‍♂️. I get a very wise, confident and mature vibe from Surya compared to Tonya back then if I compare them both. Where Tonya I just get a very spastic all over the place feeling. But yea I wouldn’t say they were the same or that they experienced the same problems. That’s just my opinion

Leo V No two athletes are ever the same. Yes they experienced the same problems- not a traditional ice princess. Surya got the European title few times, so the judges gave her chance. You want it to be different, because Surya is brown. There are many skaters that are fighting for their spot under the stars. Michelle Kwan for example in my opinion was so underrated. It’s a cut throat competition for everybody.

You think so? They called Tonya Harding trash and she is white, this girl is a good skater but she doesn't have typical figure skating grace

Judges almost ruined the sport, judging and marks are so weak & stupid. Suriya Bonaly was well in her time, only the judges were behind!!! I always loved her body image, she is a gymnast -- good for her. I always want as many muscles on an athlete as it takes for her to perform those backflips ! 🙃

Not in any age! They will never be ready!

Asabi Fatosin they are never ready for us.. because when conquer something we’re the best !!!!

Hi Michelle, I just rewatched her whole program and I agree, her first 2 jumps were dodgy, but very little matter, she landed them. She stuck the rest. But I am still not all that interested in (her) jumps as much as the overall perf. She was always clever and interpretative, and should forever be credited with opening up the sport with new moves. Just look at her one-arm hold on the ice during a spin, I don't even know what that's called. But it's so great, I want more of that! And then she just glides down into the splits on ice! What you seem to be defending is just the grossest (as in massive) *conservatism* in judging. The kind that is determined to stay blind to innovation, as if that were a good thing. Ice skating as a sport started as mainly for the well to do, and as usual, only for men at first. The more we can get rid of such a typically ugly 19th C. past, the better. One of my heroes was American champ Dick Button, who was a jumping innovator, but John Curry's innovations towards overtly balletic skating never took. Maybe I am ok with that, other than hoping one day a new balletic skating sport can coexist. Now looking at such large stylistic approaches, there was nothing to mark Suriya down for within the existing framework except squirming conservatism wanting "fluidity". You can't legit argue that she failed to perform "jazzhands"(or "Spirit Fingers") so she doesn't fit the sport! That would be sport bigotry and every kind of ugly -ism that is essentially bullying. I'm sure dear Suriya felt utterly bullied her whole career. Not an attitude to uphold, defend, nor to be proud of. theundefeated.com/features/former-olympian-surya-bonaly-says-dont-call-her-a-rebel-call-her-fearless/

she's not beautiful she's a man

Kozu Tamisaki you are correct she is a real star......AMEN AMEN AMEN

She has very stunning skin color and body though. And she skates amazingly.

The problem from my non expert eyes seems to be that she is not as flexible and as refined as gold medal skaters. IE when she does a camel spin her arms are not tight, when she does Biellmann spin she struggles to extend, and that i-spin she tried to do took her like 5 seconds to get extended .. this is why she doesnt score well

husher5142 Actually, in this program I can understand she not scoring that well, because it was kinda sloppy. Even the backflip at the end she end up having to touch the ice and the backflip is her trademark. But if you see her previous presentations, when she was younger (in this video she was almost 30 years old, if I well remember, what is kinda old for a figure skater) you can see how amazing she was, specially she being such a unique figure skater.

I'm watching it now and its not like you described 😂😂

gelato cream I agree she is very very special AMEN

gelato cream Exactly! Society is so confusing!

Surya has fans around the world. She won fame & fortune. Surya earned millions of dollars touring and skating in tv specials. She won world medals and was a 6 time European champion who innovated her sport and her feats filled the record books. She traveled the world performing & speaking doing interviews. That is not an ordinary unappreciated life.

and the saddest part of all this is that even France never appreciated her very much, she was constantly fighting against hate, jealousy, she was misunderstood but at the end of the day she gave us something different to see, watch or appreciate, she played with differente rules because she loved her sport and repetedly said "I'm never going to change but YOU will have to evolved if you want this institution to stay attractive", she was so right so early. I appreciate her style more, I love her energy and her strengh. At the end she wasn't even there to be judged but to inspire others to free themselves on the ice, that's why she does'nt give a shit about the results ^^

YES! Make backflips legal!

DEUS ABENÇOE ESSA MENINA O BRASIL AMANDO ❤🌹

Она позитивная❤сияющая❤🎉

Very true, still love her!💃💜

Other skaters did backflips...Scott Hamilton, for one. Surya is a great skater, though.

💗💗💗🤗Surya💝

Ice totally The Queen. I'm on edge watching her do it soo gracefully.

She is The Ice QUEEN

Truth!

As another older white lady, I totally agree. She is magnificent! She is breaking out of a stereotype, as many before her have had to do --- and always been penalized for it. Progress is slow. I remember one gold medalist of yore who said she was disqualified from a competing her teens because her costume had shorts. Judges required her to wear a skirt. The judges had no vision about this great woman.

Ur comment actually brought me to tears...it was everything my heart felt but cldnt say!

To be fair, there was a lot of concern at the time that skating would become gymnastics on ice. I love her too but it had nothing to do with prejudice. She was a gymnast in a world of dancers

@@mrs.schmenkman2858 She brought something new and refreshing to the ice skating world, people just envy her because they couldn't perform how she did

ella stefanescu thats exactly what i thougtht:)

I know she should have skated to FELA lady let's she Fire and Fierceness

@@1nner.w0rld I agreee

Justement, je crois qu'elle est venue trop tôt! Les juges étaient frileux à l'époque et on voyait plutôt des profils de patineuses tout en finesse ou en gracieuseté convenue, même si elles étaient très talentueuses! Sa merveilleuse énergie athlétique, son style plein d'enthousiasme devait détonner par rapport à celui de ses concurrentes plutôt calqué sur "l'esprit"de la danse classique.

@S K I’m 100% positive that even Serena herself would take this as a compliment.

Ahahah Fully Agree with you! ;)

Couldn’t AGREE MORE, A GODDESS in Motion.

With what, a back flip? She had no quads, no triple axel and generally lousy footwork. Seen the Russians lately or even some of our American girls? Surya is a showgirl, she is entertaining af, but was not on caliber to be an international champion, then or now.

Mrs Kaa Calm down! Zagitova won the 2019 WC without a quad or triple axle.

She was an international champion, btw

Dustin Gabe yeah , I have no clue who are you comparing her to & to be honest, I don’t care

Zagitova underrotates like crazy - but never gets called out like surya did. Surya's quad salchows are just as clean as some of the russians who get theirs called clean.

❤❤

That is so true. One great legend

dare2eatcandy IKR, I can't even remember all the past 10 Olympic Champions but I do remember Surya Bonaly. Even though she never won Olympic or World Gold.

so true, during her entire carrer she had to face the injustice of jude's behavior, but she was not even getting support from France ... I think that it's beatiful that my country give a chance to talented artists, regardless of their skin color, but what a pity when your nation is not even supporting you ... you have to prove yourself to others ten times more than others concurents, that's why she was a fighter at such a young age and this was not helping either ... but she's a champion, and an inspiration, and a role model, she is still that strong person she has always been, luv you girl! You were misunderstood, and now, everybody remember your name and your skills! You have won the most important battle, no, you have won the war, you are the winner.

Wdym she didn't win big. She is one of the most honored olympic women and gained millions of dollars and fans, and now she is in Netflix. That isn't big?

You can't win bigger that the public's recognition.

Andre Suston you know what this is a very good point. She had something for sure. I remember always being curious and interested to watch her skate.

murat dinçer all is about racism back then

@@beatricedevarenne2621 judges and coaches all around the world were in awe of Surya. The reason why Surya won 6 european championship gold medals and was always on the podium proves it. Why did'nt she win world or olympic gold: Her mother refused to allow coaches to develop her skating skills. Always butting in until coaches just gave up. Surya's mother wasn't a coach. Surya did'nt use the edges of her blades, used a lot of crossovers and pushes to accelerate and her prep for her jumps...you could see them coming from a mile away. Figure skating is more than just the jumps. You actually have to have intricate skating skills to get those high marks. Coaches stood in line to work with her. Everybody agreed that she could be the best skater of her generation But her mother kept het isolated and surya never improved on her skating skills. Blame her mom

roddo You are right. There were no intricacies to her footwork. It was very simplistic. Footwork can be as hard to do as jumps are.

She never won the gold? Then she bought herself 5 golds from Europeans? XD Jesus, people, check your facts.

gwirith14 as in Olympics gold. I’m pretty sure they meant Olympics gold

That she did, why else are people still talking about it❤🙏

Samee, i also really hope so

YEAH ! I AGREE, SHE BROUGHT A DIFFERENT STYLE AND SHOULD BE REWARDED EVEN ENCOURAGED BY THE JUDGES !!! ( I LIKE THE WARRIOR AMAZON PRINCESS FIRE SKATING ON ICE!)

*YES YES YES YES YES YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAY YES YES*

that would be nice

Yeeeeeeees!!!!!

Jmsessn so.so.so.TRUE

@peggy brooks, remember when Oksuna won the gold instead of her? 😬 She was NOT happy, lol. Baiul was one of our favs too but Surya had out-performed *everyone* flawlessly and should have won the gold. She earned a gold but they placed her second. We felt terrible right along with her.

Une excellente patineuse mais.......les juges n’apprécient pas sa mère qui trop présente a nui à sa carrière

🙈🙈🙈

Marybeth Langendorf very very special.the sicko men and men pizza people know what they are looking for

It’s a good thing you’re not a judge, because you’re a fucking idiot.

@@gabrielgomez1395 please stop with the hating and unnecessary name calling

She was born in France,and I think I remember that she was adopted.

@@yonaavraham9594 so means she is not afrikan ?

@@rrr-sy3ql She is African.Thats plain to see.How she identifies is up to her,but now that you mention it,I have no idea how 'African' she is.Do you know?

@@yonaavraham9594 Not all melinated beings came from Africa! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@@stargatekeeper3303 yes they do

One of a kind! First place all the way. While others are warming up, Surya has finished.🙏😇⛸⛸👏👏👏👏👏👏🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🥇🥇🥇

Because she's French.

no it's because she's Black.

Rachael Hudson Black is nothing more than a percentage of melanin. Like being white or yellow... nothing to be proud of.

Rachael Hudson so true and bright

Rachael Hudson pure envy but I know what goes around will come around in many ways for OUR GOD ALMIGHTY IS ALIVE AND KNOWS ALL ALL

Rules are just yesterday's standards codified. Break ever one of them!

lenore mccall they know when they see a good athlete when they see one. But being a good athlete is not enough. In figural skating artistic expression is important. But I must say that I liked her performance her. It was beautiful to watch and made me want to keep watching her other performances while with amazing jumps are boring because she does nothing in between.

@@LifeInPink999 agreed, she has terrible footwork in particular, and I don't see much artistry fron her. She has a bit of a daredevil type skating style, which is exciting, and her costume is brilliant here, but she is not an international skating champion.

LifeInPink999 this is a hard point to get across to the younger generation or people who just discovered her and have no real clue about figure skating and competiton rules. She was a hardcore competitor but I think she would be better appreciated in exhibition skating.

E Rivera I watched her many years ago and thought her back flip was really something! I wondered what became of her. Great to see her again. She really loves the sport to have skated so many years.

Thank you!

And folks should remember this was a pro event where it was legal to do a backflip.

Thx

Thank you 😊

I watched her back in the 90s and always thought she was just such an amazing badass. Still don't get tired of watching her! I'm an adult skater and she's one of my inspirations.

@@jennyswartzbaugh9 I am not a skater and she so inspires me to be more. I hope you love skating it looks so fun. but take great skill

What do you mean she is so French in her representation?

Sometimes she doesn't *quite* hit the best of positions, but her willingness to do so many of them and with so many changes of position -- I love it. You're not quite sure if it's a single position spin or if she's going for a camel/sitspin/camel/layback/butterly/sitspin/camel/half-sitspin/camel/Biellmann/backscratch combination.

It's ashame that they were denied the opportunity to to know that she existed.

А для тех лет она была действительно мощь..ползали как букашки по льду,она тогда делала в катании новое и необычное

Si....

😅😅😅😄😂😂

Это женское катание))))), за которое топят некоторые)))

Это капец!

Женщина похожая на мужчину. Ей в мужском катании выступать.

Все же фигурное катание не для них .. Они сильны во многих других видах спорта, но ФК... Этт больше похоже на какую - то жесть :)