The Flip Side (The Surya Bonaly Story)

Hall of Shame

Rachel Bonnetta

Sports, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Rachna's lacing up those childhood skates. In the early 1990's French figure skater Surya Bonaly didn't fit the "ice princess" mold. From a young age she was surrounded by a strange cast of characters, from her hovering mother, to her coach who pushed to "exotify" her background. Fed up with society's criticisms of who she should be, Surya decided to be herself, and made history along the way.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Rachel Bonetta.
0:06.6	And I'm Rechna Freppon.
0:07.9	And this is Hall of Shae.
0:09.6	Hi Rachel.
0:12.6	Hey girl, hey, how okay?
0:15.9	You guys can't see this because it's a podcast.
0:18.5	But Rechna is bandaged up from head to toe.
0:24.2	Care to explain what the hell happened to you this week.
0:27.6	Well first of all, not my head because I was wearing a helmet.
0:30.9	There you go.
0:31.9	But I was riding my bike and a guy accidentally opened his car door into me and I swerved
0:40.2	to avoid it and ate shit.
0:42.3	I'm concrete.
0:43.3	And so I'm banged up on the left side of my body.
0:46.2	And I got to say obviously terrible, terrible.
0:48.4	But what might be even worse is that you decided to cold text me just photos of the
0:55.3	wounds.
0:56.3	And I'm like, I'm not an explanation.
0:59.1	Here I am.
1:00.1	This is what's going on.
1:02.1	No, no, no.
1:03.1	I think I'm not.
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