Coming in backward for what looked like a jump, she instead reached her hands back behind her head and leaped. Whipping around, Bonaly landed on one blade – which was an Olympic first that no-one has dared to match. “A stunning backflip,” Newsday wrote 20 years ago this week. “Illegal – but astounding,” the Boston Globe wrote. Bonaly slipped to 10th place overall to end her Olympic career. “It was my last Olympics, and pretty much my last competition ever,” said Bonaly. “I wanted to leave a trademark.”
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THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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