Stephen Nedoroscik’s Performance in Pommel Horse Final: How the Team USA Star Shone

Nedoroscik soared into the event finals Saturday with a chance to put another medal in his carry-on before he heads home.

WASHINGTON — Stephen Nedoroscik, Team USA’s pommel horse specialist, delivered an epic win in the event finals Saturday.

Nedoroscik earned a bronze medal on Saturday, placing behind Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan and Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan. The American gymnast celebrated by sporting an American flag in a cape-like manner.

Nedoroscik helped the U.S. men earn bronze in the team final earlier this week, sealing the program’s first Olympic medal in 16 years with a lights-out routine that made him a viral sensation. He was the only gymnast from the men’s team to qualify for an apparatus final.

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