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On the Edge

2016-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·43m 5s ·by WNYC Studios
On the Edge
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About this episode

At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, one athlete pulled a move that, so far as we know, no one else had ever done in all of human history. Surya Bonaly was not your typical figure skater. She was black. She was athletic. And she didn’t seem to care about artistry. Her performances – punctuated by