Edan shares what Olympic greatness is all about with a French figure skater who didn’t win Gold but should have. Learn all about the amazing Surya Bonaly!
Show Notes & Extras
- Gal Pals this month are – Bonnie Fillenwarth, Katie Harris, Leah Leach and Edan.
- Bonnie has already talked about Gertrude Ederle
- Get to know you question – if you could win a gold medal in anything not sports related what would it be?
- Bonnie freaks out about shingles…again
- Edan’s superhuman abilities
- Edan’s 1 Cool Olympic Gal is Surya Bonaly
- Surya should have gotten gold but didn’t
- Winter Olympics in the 90’s
- Born in 1973 in France
- Adopted
- Rename Surya (means Sun in Sanskrit)
- Birth mother & father
- Adopted parents lived off the grid
- Surya was an active toddler
- Focused on skating and gymnastics at the age of 4
- 1984 she watched the Winter Olympics
- Broke her ankle
- Joined the French National Team in Figure Skating
- Back flip on ice
- Tumbling award 1986
- Awards
- 1992 First Olympics
- Costumes (pics below)
- Judges didn’t like her
- Body types
- 1994 Olympics
- 1998 Olympics
- Did the back flip! (video below)
- October 2020 interview (Olympics.com)
- “Don’t take no for an answer”
- “Exactly what the Olympic greatness is all about” Edan
- Simone Biles vault
- G.O.A.T. (For the Win Article about Simone Biles wear her G.O.A.T. leos to mess with her haters)
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