Surya Bonaly is a French former competitive figure skater. She is a three-time World silver medalist , a five-time European champion , the 1991 World Junior Champion, and a nine-time French national champion .
Bonaly is the only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on only one blade; she performed it at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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“I'd rather skate naked than wear fur.”
Banner held for PETA, as she skated in Asnieres, near Paris (31 January 2007); as quoted in " 今天我最炫 Skate Naked 裸體滑冰 http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/international/20070202/3227612/", in the Apple Daily (2 February 2007).
From the ESPN documentary Rebel on Ice http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=13416371&categoryid=12740388 (2015); as quoted in " The Rebellious, Back-Flipping Black Figure Skater Who Changed the Sport Forever https://newrepublic.com/article/122561/back-flipping-black-figure-skater-who-changed-sport-forever", in the New Republic (18 August 2015).
