#Peggy Liddick

[freifraufischer]

What exactly happened with Allana Slater and the vault in Sydney? I know she was the one who alerted the authorities but I was 10 and watching on NBC at the time so my understanding is... incomplete.

Allana Slater had started the night on of the Sydney All Around on beam so half the gymnasts had already vaulted by the time she rotated there. As she tells it standing at the end of the runway it just occurred to her... "does the vault look too low to anyone else?" She wasn't aware of the many falls already that night or the injury to British Gymnast Annika Reeder. It just looked off to her.

She was sure of it after her warmup and measured the vault against her body. She realized it was too low and refused to get off the landing mat until the vault was measured. It was 5cm too low.

Earlier in the evening a British Gymnast (I think Lisa Mason but it's been a while since I listened to the Blind Landings podcast) had tried to tell her coach that the vault was too low and he dismissed her. While Slater refused to leave the landing mat Peggy Liddick, the head of the Australian program, was yelling at her to get on with the vault. She apparently later apologized to her.

She was 16 years old and this was her home Olympics.

It's very possible that she saved a life that night.

[bellie-downie]

[gymnasticscoaching]

Peggy Liddick suspended 4 months

Peggy Liddick suspended 4 months

The Australian National Coach 1997 – 2016 had a number of complaints from gymnasts. Two of those allegations were found to be valid. Membership in the Federation is suspended for a period of four (4) months from 19 January 2022, however the suspension is wholly suspended for a period of 2 years from above date, subject to Ms Liddick not breaching any relevant Policy within that period (whether…

[ravenclawanderson]

You make sure, you make sure on that front double, that you are on your feet, or you keep running - you get up and you keep running that way, cause I'm gonna be after you.

Peggy Liddick giving Allana Slater a pep talk before floor

[nwgmountisa]

An amazing opportunity to spend a week with Peggy Liddick (7 x Olympic coach) and the GA team at the AIS. Thanks to @gymaustralia and @figymnastics for an amazing course and workshop 💕. A huge thanks to Miss Sophie for being an awesome demonstrator. #nwgmountisa #mountisagymcoaches (at Australian Institute of Sport Canberra) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrZFu02Hruy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l4h2uxn8ee6

[didisbulimar]

Yeah the Melbourne WC was awesome, I got to hang out with Mez, and I met Emma Nedov, GRB, Ashleigh Brennan, Peggy Liddick, and best of all, Aly Raisman and Lieke Wevers, it was AMAZING! I’d go again next year for sure but seeing as I’m already going on a big trip, it’ll have to wait until 2019. Have you got any trips planned for upcoming months? Also sorry I disappeared for a while hahahahaha, I had to have a minor surgery yesterday but I’m feeling a lot better! -SS2

Oh no I hope you get better soon! I keep pushing my knee surgery off. I tore my ACL in college, and need a second surgery 😑. Also with rec dancing and Mommy and me Gymnastic classes I don't think I can wait any longer. I have no trips planned just yet. I do plan on taking a cruise in the next 2 years. Once I finish the beginning section of my Pharmacy school.

[russiangymbreaksmyheart]

seriously though isabela onyshko is proof that sending your seniors to major international competition can totally change them. she’s now a totally different gymnast compared to before worlds 2015. who would’ve thought the nervy not-really-a-great-AAer bela would be beating ellie black in AA in the olympic year?

suck that, peggy liddick, and next time send your goddamn new seniors to worlds in the post-olympic year and maybe you won’t screw over the whole quad resulting in you not even qualifying a whole team to rio

[freifraufischer]

Are you aware that you can block the user u/RedditCareResources? Saw the recommendation in another subreddit.

I have. You still get a notice that you got a message from them. I am more amused than anything else but I think it's worth talking about reddit care's because it's an anonymous way to tell another user to kill themselves.

The gymnastics sub is one of the worst subs I've ever been on for both that and for automatic downvoting. I also participate on a famously hostile pokemon go sub and never got reddit cared there.

On the gym sub I get downvoted within 2-5 minutes of everything I post or comment. Results from a meet. Answers to a direct question. Old interesting gym content. Everything.

I get reddit cares once every two weeks or so.

I've been reported to reddit for promoting hatred against a group for talking about Steve Nunno and the BBC commentary team.

@darthmelyanna last week mentioned that you can get reported for racism against the BBC and she was promptly reported for racism against the BBC. When the subreddit mod commented publicly that it had happened she got reported for racism.

I've come to joke that these are MLT or Peggy Liddick under sock puppet accounts.

[bellie-downie]

Peggy Liddick looked more nervous than Russo did.

[gymnasticscoaching]

World Cup Symposium - February 21-25

World Cup Symposium – February 21-25

In conjunction with the World Cup in Australia. Dee Jennings and Ton Leenders – Strength and conditioning for gymnasts Peggy Liddick – Developing the D score for Tokyo in 2020 and beyond (Part 1: Vault and Beam) Peggy Liddick – Developing the D score for the new quadrennium and beyond (Part 2: Bars and Floor) Ton Leenders – The journey to Rio, 2010-2016 details

[ravenclawanderson]

"Competes for the Nebraska School of Gymnastics, where she is coached by Peggy Liddick and Steve Elliott." ...?

[liriel-higa]

"I knew sometime the lack of preparation was going to show through, luck only can carry you so far. That's all it was really. It was not a lack of effort from the girls.

Peggy Liddick, head coach for Australia, which had a disappointing team finals

[freifraufischer]

“Fun” Australian Gymnastics Fact:  Georgia Godwin, 2022 Commonwealth Games AA Champion was the Australian national AA champion in 2014.  Peggy Liddick left her off both the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2014 Worlds teams in favor of sending specialists.  Only 3 of which were potential medalists.  The year before Liddick sent no Australians to worlds claiming they weren’t good enough.

In 2022, 24 year old Georgia Godwin is the only non-English gymnast, male or female, to win a Commonwealth gold medal (with one more day of event finals to go her current medal count is two golds, two silvers).

[freifraufischer]

Peggy Liddick:  How Destroy a World Class Program and Ruin A Generation of Gymnasts at the Same Time

Peggy Liddick came to fame as American olympic great Shannon Miller’s beam technical coach in the 1990s.  Like most female coaches of the era she was over shadowed by flamboyant men who were given credit (and also who took most of the blame) for their work.  Though Miller was an undeniable success even in the 1990s Liddick drew attention for her manipulative coaching appearing in Joan Ryan’s Little Girls in Pretty Boxes.  A ground breaking book on abuse and eating disorders in gymnastics and figure skating Liddick described it as “this is somebody's attempt to cause controversy that will sell. It was purely a money-making endeavor.“  The book describes one of the reasons that Kerri Strug would leave that gym being that Liddick insisted that she compete on a torn muscle.  Nothing to see here.  No reason to change anything they were doing.

She would later casually drop in an interview decades later that Shannon Miller had a broken wrist while in Atlanta.

In 1997 Peggy moved to Australia to take a job as the head coach of their women’s program.  Australia was at the time a country on the rise regularly featuring at Olympic and World championship team finals and having individual gymnasts winning medals.  With the 2000 Olympics looming she was seen as a key figure to bring them success at a home Olympics.  She would stay in that job for two decades until 2017 becoming an Australian citizen in the process.  

Over the course of her tenure Australia would all but disappear from high level international gymnastics.  The low point being the 2013 World Championship when Liddick set a qualifying standard to make the team that no one met and the country sent no athletes to the world championships.  A review of Gymnastics Australia by the Australian Human Rights Commission was damning describing just about every kind of abuse in their system from the top down.  The above images are a letter Liddick wrote to a 15 year old girl gas lighting her telling her it wasn’t her choice to quit the sport because she owed it to the adults who had invested so much hard work in her.

After leaving her post in Australia she was on the staff of equally troubled British Gymnastics and has applied for the position of head of the American national team.  And she still gets speaking engagements touting Miller’s accomplishments from 25 years ago.

[freifraufischer]

People I think could take the USAG High Performance Director job to replace Tom Forster.  And their drawbacks:

Brian Carey (1L):  Coach of the 2020 Tokyo Floor gold medalist.  Problem, she’s his daughter and he hasn’t ever coached another elite to success.  He recently left his gym.  60% Likely

Jess Graba (1R):  Coach of the 2020 Tokyo All Around gold medalist.  There are some unsavory things about using conditioning as punishment even after that was a safe sport violation.  But picking him (or Carey) would be on brand and “easy”  10% Likely

Kelli Hill (2L):  Old school been around forever, has questioned gymnasts description of conditions at the ranch.  She’s had a falling out with her most famous gymnast (Dominique Dawes) who has kept quiet about the details for now but might light her on fire if she gets the job.   10% Likely

Dominique Moceanu (2R):  1996 Olympian, one of the first to set USAG on fire over abuse.  Persona non grada for many years.  I still don’t think they’ll hire her because that’s hiring someone they can’t control.  1% Likely

Peggy Liddick (3L):  Shannon Miller’s 1996 beam coach.  She ran the Australian program for fifteen years.  Cons:  She broke the Australian program and is probably about to be sued in Australia.  But she’s applied for this job repeatedly.  .0001% Likely

Valeri Liukin (3R):  Soviet Olympic medalists, coach/father of Nastia.  He was forced out of this job before Tom because his former gymnasts talked about all the weight shaming bullshit he put them through in the early 2000s.  Tom took the job on the understanding that Liukin would get it back eventually.  Cons:  Liukin called those accusations nothing/nonsense and said racist things to Russian media in Russian because the people who can speak Russian say things to Russian media like no one outside of Russia speaks Russian.  10% Likely

Mihai Brestyan (4L):  The other American who broke the Australians.  Also Aly Raisman’s coach.  5% Likely

Cecile Canqueteau-Landi and Laurent Landi (4R):  Simone Biles coaches, a married couple.  She is a 1996 French Olympian.  Why would they want this job?  Wishcasting.  .5% likely

Rhonda Faehn (5L):  Former Women’s Program director, one of the first ones to report Nassar... unfortunately she reported him to her superiors.  Former Florida NCAA coach.  She’s nuclear.  I could see them flirting with the idea but no.  .5% likely.

Mary Lee Tracy (5R):  Long time old school coach.  1996 Olympic team coach.  Loves to put her foot in her mouth and quote bible versus about forgiving her enemies when her gymnasts talk about how she hurt them.  She’ll apply.  Also nuclear.  .5% likely.

[freifraufischer]

Peggy Liddick, International Gymnastics Camps interview 2013

Time stamp starting at 3.11 to hear her describe Shannon Miller making a “tiny mistake” in her beam routines in Atlanta because she had a broken wrist and did her handstand pirouette with only one of her wrists.