Shannon Miller: My Child, My Hero by Claudia Miller

[rlayt]

I love that she remembers Belarus in the final round of optionals when it was really Ukraine. Not a mistake people would likely make today. I'm also still curious to this day about Miller's optional bars score in Atlanta. So interesting to me that Jackie Fie ordered it lowered. I wonder what it would have been otherwise?

I don’t remember why she did that. Did she ever explain it? People can try to explain what they see but it would be great to hear it from her.

 

[makam]

Claudia has the backbone of a wet noodle when it comes to Nunno's dictatorial running of the gym. "No, you can't watch me abuse your daughters!" And I like the low key whining about Kerri taking the glory.

 

[RedBirdie]

Yeah, I noticed the grievance whining, too. "All the attention was on Kerri!" "All the attention was on Kim!" "They made Shannon attend to mandatory post-championship meeting!" And on and on and on.

But never "Steve Nunno was an abusive fucknugget who mentally abused my daughter, overtrained her and forced her to do exhibitions and competitions while injured, and locked us out of the gym for weeks on end so we couldn't observe what was going on."

Like I said earlier, I'd be very interested to know Claudia's take these days. Does she see the abuse? Does she see how she facilitated it? Does she have regrets? Or would she still wave it all away and claim it was worth it (and probably say that today's athletes are too soft and coddled)?

 

[Aeris]

When someone thinks they have no other option to achieve a goal, they will accept any amount of prickly behavior to get there.

 

[rlayt]

i I wonder if Nuno could get away with that shit now? There are parents who would put up with Haney (even praising her) , so why not?