SURYA BONALY JO LILLEHAMMER 1994 VIVALDI

French commentators (Nelson Monfort and Annick Gailhaguet) are disappointed about Bonaly's performance who finished in a terrible 4th place in 1994 during JO.

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Sports

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• Ice
• skating
• Surya
• Bonaly
• JO
• Lillehammer
• 1994
• Vivaldi
• 4th
• french
• commentators
• gailhaguet
• monfort

[ralphyization]

N'est pas terrible!!! 

[demisDINOS]

She gave the judges a reason here. Damn! If only she landed the lutz! Either the first or second attempt. Just not good enough for a medal here.

[faeryquene]

@1978barbapapa I think the judges were determined to keep her off of the Olympic podium at all costs. I don't think she would have gotten silver with Baiul's, and Kerrigan's skates. Bronze maybe.

[spacekangaroo]

@Zuranthium:

When I say fluidity, I mean the movements of her body in general, including her arms, but not necessarily her skates. In that respect, I think I would agree with you.

I feel that Midori was great on her skates, but the rest of her body simply looked rigid, whereas Surya looked like a natural dancer who could move to the music intuitively.

[Zuranthium]

@spacekangaroo Sometimes her elegance was forced, but that was because of the poor programs her coaches made her skate. She was very natural with the correct music. If you watch her skates, she is certainly more fluid than Bonaly. You must be talking about arm movements when you say fluidity.

[spacekangaroo]

@Zuranthium:

I agree that Surya's jumps are telegraphed and that Midori had better technical and basic skating skills. However, I still maintain that Surya developed far better fluidity, expression, and musical interpretation skills than Midori by the end of their amateur careers. I loved watching Midori skate because of her charisma, speed, and energy, but her elegance was very forced and rigid.

[Zuranthium]

@spacekangaroo Surya is hardly fluid. She had expression, yes, but it got bogged down by her telegraphed jumps and poor skating skills. Midori Ito had exceptional joy and freedom in her best performances, btw, and better basic skating ability.

[barkingtree88]

Even if it was cheated, that 3/3 attempt towards the end was very gutsy.

[spacekangaroo]

@jpmorrison71:

I disagree. Surya Bonaly's form didn't fit the conventional rules of figure skating, but she was much more than a jumper on ice. She skated with a lot of expression, fluidity and flare, and this came out in her exhibition skates where she could skate freely.

A perfect example of a jumper with no artistry was Midori Ito. I loved her, but even years into her career, her presentation remained stiff and robotic.

[jovani2293]

I agree. She need to show the judge she could hit the triple lutz and then the bronze maybe the silver ( probably not) would have been hers.