Yes unconventional broke all the rules amazing!
Wikipedia says she’s coaching in the U.S. now. (That reminds me of how I saw Nadia Comaneci in the Albertsons grocery in Norman, Oklahoma, once. She was guest-coaching at a major gymnastics training facility nearby.)
I remembered that Surya Bonaly was from the island of Reunion, but Wikipedia says she was actually born in France. Her adoptive parents and coach said she was from Reunion (her birth mother was) to get more publicity because she was “exotic.” Also, she was originally named “Claudine,” but the adoptive parents chose something “exotic.”
What people will do ...