Stephen Nedoroscik simply whipped off his glasses and earned himself one other medal.
Nedoroscik, 25, earned a bronze within the males’s pommel horse remaining on Saturday, Aug. 3 at Bercy Area in Paris. The gymnast’s routine on the equipment, his specialty, scored 15.300.
Eire’s Rhys McClenaghan took the gold with a rating of 15.533, whereas second place went to Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan, who scored 15.433.
As per standard for the Massachusetts native, he carried out his pommel horse routine sans eye glasses — the very accent that impressed followers to nickname him “the Clark Kent of pommel horse” after his first competitors in Paris went viral on social media.
He was supported on the ground by teammate Brody Malone, who ran round excitedly after Nedoroscik’s efficiency.
Earlier than his flip, the pommel horse medalist regarded cool and picked up as he mentally ready to compete. The second was paying homage to his warm-up routine caught on digicam earlier than Nedoroscik made his mark in Paris.
Throughout a phase on TODAY, Nedoroscik defined that he was going by his “respiration workouts” when cameras caught him together with his eyes closed and head titled again.
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He added, “We all the time attempt to maintain our coronary heart fee down and thru that 5 minutes I am sitting there, I am simply visualizing my routine again and again … that is all I am doing in my head.”
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The bronze win is Nedoroscik’s second after he and teammates Paul Juda, Fred Richard, Brody Malone and Asher Hong additionally took third on July 29 within the males’s gymnastics remaining. The group win marked the primary medal for the USA in males’s gymnastics in 16 years.
After the group remaining, Nedoroscik informed reporters, together with PEOPLE, that it was the “biggest second of my life.”
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