The U.S. hadn't won an Olympic team medal in men's gymnastics since 2008. With a nearly flawless and gutsy performance Monday night, the boys are back on the podium in Paris.
Members of the U.S. men's gymnastics team pose with their bronze medal following the men's team final on Monday. It's the first Olympic medal for the U.S. in the event since 2008.PARIS — The moment that Stephen Nedoroscik's feet touched the floor — one last perfect dismount in the final routine of a flawless night — the U.S. men's gymnastics team erupted in joy.It didn't matter that the medal was bronze, not gold.
In fact, it was the team's only returning Olympian, Brody Malone, who'd had the worst performance on Saturday. Malone fell once on the pommel horse, then twice on the horizontal bar. The painful errors ultimately cost him a chance to compete for an individual all-around medal later this week.American Brody Malone competes on the rings at Bercy Arena on Monday during the men's gymnastics team final at the Paris Summer Olympics.
Richard had prepared a more difficult horizontal bar routine that he had intended to perform in an event final, but after he failed to qualify, he decided to deploy it Monday instead."In our team meeting, the coaches said, 'You look amazing, do it," he said."And it paid off." "We were so far behind in difficulty," Brett McClure, the men's high performance director said last week."I believe that this team's legacy is being able to close the gap in such a short amount of time." McClure was part of the 2004 Olympic team in Athens, where the U.S. men won a silver medal. At the next Olympics, in Beijing in 2008, the men won a bronze — their last team medal for 16 years.
An hour after the medal ceremony, Richard said that the bronze still felt"unreal," but that he had already started to realize how historic their effort was.
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