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Surya Bonaly
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Surya Bonaly became a sports icon during the 1998 Winter Olympics after landing the then-banned backflip during her figure skating routine.
Surya Bonaly performed an "illegal" backflip in which she landed on the blade of one skate in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
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