Talk:Surya Bonaly

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 18:42, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: It was a spectacular way to end her Olympic career and should be mentioned. She was making a statement with the illegal back flip on how she felt unjustly lowly scored. Also, Surya was always headstrong and strong-willed and always spoke up in defense of herself and her literally flipping off the judges (ha ha) attests to as much. 
She already knew she was not going to win and felt she had been scored lowly, as usual. When she positioned herself to start the back flip, the crowd quickly realized what she was about to do and cheered her. If I recall correctly, so did the commentators. Surya was heavily penalized afterwards but was content with her statement. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/figskate/articles/notes21.htm
==="The most decorated skater of African descent"===
Well, that claim is somewhat debatable; other candidates include Tai Babilonia and Debi Thomas, both former World Champions.  I'll soften the wording a little.  Dr.frog 22:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Illegal back flip at 1998 Olympics

message: Well, that claim is somewhat debatable; other candidates include Tai Babilonia and Debi Thomas, both former World Champions.  I'll soften the wording a little.  Dr.frog 22:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "The most decorated skater of African descent"

message: I removed this claim.  Best as I can recall, Bonaly won a junior tumbling championship in France before she gave up gymnastics to concentrate on skating, but somebody ought to track down a specific reference from a neutral and reliable source (e.g., not like the made-up publicity about Reunion Island) before making claims about her accomplishments in that sport.  Dr.frog 23:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "World champion gymnast"

message: What should be a section about her early life is mostly about her parents' misrepresentation of where she was born. That presents an unbalanced view. We should hear more about her upbringing.  The birthplace discussion should be a fraction as long. Edison (talk) 16:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Compared to other skaters, the entire section on her childhood is overlong.Parkwells (talk) 22:08, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: "Early Life" section violates [[WP:UNDUE]]

message: Due to repetitive reverts on the main infobox image I am going to explain why I think that it should be updated, to present my full reasoning and prevent further switching on the main page.
The previous/yellow dress image is of extremely low quality, with her facial features indiscernible It does not make for a good Introductory Image; while this quality image would be appropriate for a person of very few available images, in this case there are better quality images of her that would be true portraits, making her personally identifiable from the get-go. A true portrait would also make the whole article feel a little more polished and aligning closer to the visual formatting of other prominent skaters of her era and other B to GA quality figure skater/public figure articles (ex: Michelle Kwan, Yuzuru Hanyu, and Tara Lipinski). 
The yellow dress image can still be further used in the body of the article as a visual representation of her competitive experience. 
If you disagree I am open to discussing why you think yellow dress should remain. MeSpnt (talk) 05:19, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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