Surya Bonaly 🇫🇷5️⃣ 1992 Albertville free skate | Flamenco

HD format, Canadian commentators: Paul Martini, Barb Underhill. Strength & Passion: France's Surya Bonaly dropped to 6th in the free skate to finish 5th overall at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games. Her performance included a historic quad attempt and was supported by a partisan home crowd. Feb 22, 1992, Associated Press extract - "The biggest disappointment Friday night was Bonaly, the two-time European champion. Bonaly, to rhythmic applause and foot-stomping from the flag-waving sellout crowd, began with the quadruple toe loop, a jump no woman has made in competition. She came very close, but made only 31/2 revolutions before landing cleanly, just as she did at last year's world championships. The 18-year-old from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion then two-footed a triple lutz and fell on a triple flip. But she landed a triple loop and a triple toe-triple toe combination to finish her four-minute routine. In all, Bonaly landed five triples, but her lack of footwork and weak spins hurt. She even got a 5.1 from the British judge and only the French judge (5.8) gave her a high mark for artistry. The partisan crowd whistled and hooted at the marks. Bonaly complained that her mother was barred from standing in the coach's area just off the ice. "My mother coaches me all the time, with the Gailhaguets," she said. "But she is almost the main one. "She was excluded at only the last moment. It disturbed me."" Costume designed by the legendary Christian Lacroix. --- "For her program, Bonaly has chosen a medley of Spanish music as background for a simulated bullfight, in which the bull proves so courageous, the matador allows him to live. Given her remarkable athletic ability, it once might have been fair to wonder which role she plays. But befitting her place in the standing and proximity to a medal no French woman has won since Jacqueline du Bief was third 40 years ago, Bonaly as matador has proved herself a challenger worthy of serious consideration. " - NY Times #figureskating #フィギュアスケート #eiskunstlauf #фигурноекатание #피겨스케이팅 #pattinaggioartistico #patinageartistique