Penn State's Stephen Nedoroscik, the pommel horse specialist, helps Team USA to a bronze medal in men's gymnastics at the Paris Olympics.
Penn State's Stephen Nedoroscik went to the Paris Olympics with one purpose: to give the U.S. men's gymnastics team a medal-winning pommel horse routine. Nedoroscik delivered Monday, helping Team USA to the bronze medal, its first in men's gymnastics team competition since 2008.
In the final event for the U.S., Nedoroscik scored a 14.866 to clinch Team USA's place on the podium. Afterward, Nedoroscik, the 2021 world pommel horse champion, participated in a cathartic celebration with his U.S. teammates. Nedoroscik, 25, is a first-time Olympian who made the U.S. men's gymnastics team as a single-event specialist. He will compete in the made the U.S. men's gymnastics team as a single-event specialist. He will compete in the individual finals later this week but first faced a pressurized spot. Nedoroscik's pommel horse routine would determine whether Team USA won a medal, and he nailed it.
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