Black girl magic: on ice!
ice skating
Watch a playthrough of all the events from Nagano Winter Olympics '98 on the N64
If only there was a Konami code for the athletes in real life, eh?
Nagano 1998 (Winter Olympic Film)
Relive Nagano 1998 with the official Olympic film right here.
The best Winter Olympic sports (if they took place in the dark)
Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already an Olympic champion, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
Nicole Whyte on finding confidence through speed skating
More Black women on the ice, doing their thing.
Black ice skaters, photographed by Flo Ngala
It’s Black on white in black and white.
The sound of skating on thin ice
Skating on thin ice never sounded so good thanks to a Swedish lake and a mathematician-turned-Nordic skater. Listen for yourself.
Lillehammer 1994 (Winter Olympic Film)
Relive Lillehammer 1994 with the official Olympic film right here.
Surya Bonaly and that backflip
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Surya Bonaly performed an illegal backflip and stunned everyone at the eve