Tweet Australia’s Women’s National Coach Peggy Liddick was granted her Australian citizenship yesterday during the countries national day celebrations. Reports say that Liddick, originally from the United States was accompanied by the whole national team to celebrate her citizenship. Liddick said:
“When the position of national coach for women’s gymnastics became available in Australia in 1996, I saw it as a sign that I was destined to become an Australian.”
“I feel a sense of pride and patriotism when the Australian flag is raised and Advance Australia Fair plays over the speakers when one …

Tweet Catalina Ponor
I had seen the report on the International Gymnast Forum regarding Catalina Ponor’s medical procedure. The Gymnastics Examiner has continued with a write up from the Romanian sites report. Check it out here. Wishing Ponor a very quick and speedy recovery.
Australian Gymnastics
Peggy Liddick discusses the Australian girls and how fitness will be a key factor when deciding the Australian Worlds Squad.
Larissa Iordache
Gymnastics No Ceiling has begun to post a brilliant series of posts about Romania’s young star in  the making, Larissa Iordache. Part 1 is an introduction to …

Tweet Peggy Liddick describes Lauren Mitchell  as a tortoise – meaning she may not be the best all-around gymnast in the world yet, but she has a habit of getting there in the end. This is according to an interview with The Australian.
In the interview Liddick explains how Lauren has become Australia’s greatest gymnast. She says that Lauren works harder than anyone else:
“I keep very strict training diaries and she does almost twice as much work as anyone else. She never complains about being tired. Sometimes we have …

Tweet The official website for the 2010 Artistic World Championships has posted their second article on how gymnasts across the globe are preparing for the competition later this year. They cover Dutch gymnast Yuri van Gelder, Italian gymnast Igor Cassina, Australian women’s head coach Peggy Liddick, British Gymnastics performance director Eddie van Hoof, Dutch coach Gerben Wiersma about his pupil, Celine van Gerner and German gymnast Oksana Chusovitina. It’s an interesting read and nice to be kept up to date in the run up to the Worlds.

You can read Straight from the Horse’s Mouth Part 2 …