He’s reached viral fame and now has glasses named after him. On Saturday, Stephen Nedoroscik earned his second medal, a bronze on pommel horse.
PARIS — He wears glasses, except for when he’s competing. He solves a Rubik’s Cube hundreds of times a day in the athlete’s village, aiming for a sub-10-second solve each time. His job is horse.
And he’s become one of the breakout stars of these Olympics. The U.S. men’s gymnastics team brought 25-year-old former Penn State gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik to Paris with one assignment: Hit pommel horse routines. He’s the 2021 world champion in the event and competes one of the most difficult routines in the world on what is traditionally a low-scoring apparatus for Team USA.
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And he’s delivered. In Saturday’s event final, Nedoroscik earned bronze, the only individual medal the U.S. men will take home from Paris. Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan won gold with a score of 15.533 and Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan earned silver with a 15.433.
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