The hero of the movie, Stephen Nedoroscik, is what to know
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Frederick Richard fell off the horse in the first rotation of the all-around final. In the next rotation, his teammate Paul Juda stepped out of bounds on his vault. The field was so competitive that mistake-free performances may not have been enough for either gymnast to win; with the errors, it was impossible.
The bottom corner of NBC’s video feed has a clock running for Nedoroscik Pommel. Observers were interested in the fact that he was sleeping with his eyes closed.
Social media was flooded with comparisons, from Superman and Captain America to Steve Kornacki and Barbie’s Ken (who famously has one job). Curious fans discovered Nedoroscik’s Instagram, where he had posted just hours before about solving a Rubik’s cube in under 10 seconds.
U.S. men’s gymnastics, chasing its first Olympic team medal since 2008, decided to switch up its strategy this time around. The five members of the team qualified, but not all of them will compete in multiple events.
The first four years in a row: When he was a monkey boy, he would jump on the handlebars and go to the Olympics
The U.S. was counting on him to keep them third place by the time he had shed his warm-up suit.
Nedoroscik jumped on the handlebars under the weight. He stuck the dismount with a smile and fist pump, after only 40 seconds of spinning and screaming.
His teammates lifted him into the air. They knew that the USA men’s gymnastics had won a bronze medal, their first Olympic medal in 16 years.
A native of Massachusetts and a 2020 graduate of Penn State, Nedoroscik studied electrical engineering and competed in gymnastics all four years.
“I would crawl up the walls, I’d shimmy up the door and it scared the babysitter,” he recalled. My parents called me a little monkey boy, and they decided that he would do a good job in gymnastics.
On his first day at the kids’ gym, he said, he somehow climbed the 15-foot rope all the way to the top — setting two decades’ of gymnastics into motion.
He went on to win gold in the world championships later that year and has continued to compete, dominating national and world competitions. He has four U.S. gymnastics titles and is tied for the most in history.
They would tell me that one day I was going to be an Olympian. He spoke. I was a fun little kid back then. Now, look at me, I am a dorky adult going to the Olympics.
He was proud to have made it to Paris and even more so because of the ups and downs over the last three years.
Unexpectedly losing to the U.S. gymnasts in the all-around final of the World Gymnastics World Championships on Wednesday night
Two days after a near perfect gymnastics performance by Team USA, the flaws have returned for the two American gymnasts trying to win a second medal.
Richard, the 20-year-old social media star who won an all-around bronze medal at last year’s Gymnastics World Championships, was thought to be Team USA’s best shot at a medal. Juda’s appearance in this final was unexpected — the U.S. had expected Brody Malone to appear instead, but Malone’s own errors during the qualifying round on Saturday cost him the opportunity.
But a medal in the men’s individual all-around — which the U.S. has been unable to win since 2012 — proved yet again unreachable on Wednesday night at Bercy Arena in Paris.
In any individual all-around final, gymnasts must perform as close to perfectly as possible. Major errors can lead to a deduction of half a point, and a fall can cost an entire point, which can be catastrophic for a sport in which margins of victory are so small.
In that preliminary round, Richard and Juda had finished 10th and 13th, respectively. On Wednesday night, Juda finished 14th, followed by Richard in 15th.
China, Japan, Great Britain and Ukraine each fielded multiple strong contenders. After Japan’s Oka Shinnosuke won gold, the other two countries followed with silver and bronze.
