#Peggy Liddick

[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).

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[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

[mustafinesse]

2017 Melbourne World Cup  Day 3 “Finals Day 1” Recap

Today was another great day at the 2017 Gymnastics World Cup in Melbourne. My day began by watching the Japanese men train on the podium. They all looked super strong and even Kenzo’s floor timers made me gawk. I then was able to watch the general warmup and event warmup which I devoted to watching Sanne Wevers train beam. Her beam training is spectacular to watch. She does countless spins and holds on relevé and is rock solid on every single one. For the competition I sat directly in front of bars and vault so I could get the best view of those two apparatus. I was lucky enough to be sitting next to Peggy Liddick and the rest of the Gymnastics Australia VIPs and got to hear some great insight into the competition from them.

The competition began similarly to Wednesday with Womens Vault and Mens Floor. Mens floor featured Dual World Champion and Olympic Champion Kenzo Shirai who was the clear favourite going into finals. Shirai had a pretty solid routine but had some low landings and lunges forward that kept his E score well into the 7s. Luckily for him his massive D score was able to let him hang on for the Gold Medal with a Score of 14.700 (7.2).

In second place with a score of 14.466 (5.9) was China’s Mu Jile. He showcased some spectacular tumbling with brilliant form to win the silver medal. He opened with a stuck double front and finished with a massive stuck triple twist that made the crowd go wild. Aesthetically he looked like the winner however he lacked the D to overcome Kenzo tonight. Ferhat Arican of Turkey was in third place with a score of 14.033 (5.7) which tied him with Japan’s Wataru Tanigawa, however due to tie break rules Arican was awarded the bronze medal. Arican had a really clean routine that was leagues better than his performance in qualification. He performed beautiful clean tumbling combined with lots of artistic flair which the crowd loved. Hilariously the gymnasts that medaled received a massive jar of Vegemite on the podium which had ‘first’, ‘second’ and ‘third’ written on them depending on the medal awarded. I hope the gymnasts realise how long it really takes to eat a jar of Vegemite that big (at least a year).

Women’s Vault was on during the Mens floor and showcased some amazing and powerful vaulting. This was especially evident in the top three gymnasts who were clearly the best vaulters in the field tonight. China’s Wang Yan capitalised on her bigger D scores to take the gold medal with two strong vaults scoring 14.250. Her first vault which was a double twisting tsukuhara landed a bit low but had good form throughout. Her second vault, a basically stuck handspring rudi, was much stronger and allowed her to claim the title here in Melbourne. 

Emily Little of Australia was close behind in second place with a score of 14.199. Emily’s double twisting yurchenko was by far the best vault of the competition and had a lot of amplitude. Her simple yet well performed tsukahara 1/1 could only clinch her the silver medal tonight. In third place was Australia’s Naomi Lee with a 13.383 who showed two huge vaults that have massive potential to be upgraded. Both her full twisting yurchenko and her laid out tsukahara look ready to upgraded and we will surely see them both soon. Naomi was swamped by adoring fans at the barrier to the competition floor after she had received her medal and Vegemite jar.

The next final was the pommel horse final which featured 2012 Olympic Champion Krisztian Berki. Berki did not disappoint coming away with the win for a beautiful clean routine that scored a 14.933. He had great flexibility and internal amplitude that made him a class above the rest of the field in terms of execution and presentation. 

Zou Jingyuan of China was in second with a 14.433 and fellow countryman Weng Hao was in third place with a 14.333. Overall the men really stepped up on pommel horse with far fewer falls than what we saw in qualifying.

Up next on the program was the rings final which had a tie for gold between China’s Zou Jingyuan and Wu Guanhua. Both men had beautiful routines with stuck dismounts. This resulted in their matching E and D scores, allowing them to both take gold with a score of 14.866. Ibrahim Colak of Turkey was in third place with a 14.366 and showed off his long lines and clean form throughout the exercise. The rings competition was super exciting as the entire field performed really well and made massive improvements upon their qualifying routines.

Uneven Bars was the final event of the night and featured China’s Luo Huan and Liu Tingting who ended up taking silver and gold medals respectively. Liu Tingting of china had a pretty strong routine with a score of 14.300 but had a couple of missed handstand that kept her E score below the 8.5 range. She definitely had the best rhythm and line tonight which allowed her to take the gold medal. 

Luo Huan of China also had a great routine but had to improvise after going over on a pirouette. She managed a great save to come up with the silver medal with a score of 13.866. 

Australias Rianna Mizzen came through for the bronze with a solid routine but had some struggles on her opening weiler kips and was a bit tight throughout the exercise. She scored a 13.433 to round out the podium.

Overall tonight was an amazing night of gymnastics that had a great and appreciative crowd. All of the Australian gymnasts got massive cheers and showed how the popularity of gymnastics in Australia is surely growing. Ambassador Aly Raisman also made appearances tonight and talked about her time hear in Australia. She seemed a lot more bubbly tonight and a lot less jet lagged. I’m super excited for the rest of the finals and the sold out crowd tomorrow night in Hisense Arena.

[thehonoraryamerican]

The Australia issues, as far as I know, are not him. Peggy Liddick was a bit of a tyrant judging from what Mary-Anne Monckton told me and @mustafinesse at the World Cup last year. None of the girls were very fond of her and I definitely think she promoted a bit of an unhealthy culture in Aus Gym.

Mihai? Fuck off youve got to be kidding. The same Mihai that had abuse allegations against him in the US and is the center of rumours in Australia about promoting eating disorders and just being an overall dick?

Wut? Who said that?

[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

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[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.

[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

[spannytampson]

Shannon Miller telling me to talk to the hand?  OK!

[ravenclawanderson]

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

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