Gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik Wins Bronze at 2024 Paris Olympics

Stephen Nedoroscik came third in the men’s pommel horse final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, earning a bronze medal.

The player, 25, competed on Saturday, August 3, winning over the crowd in Paris, finishing behind Ireland. Rhys McClenaghan and Kazakhstan Nariman Kurbanov.

After his family asked for better seats in the front, they were able to get up close to the pommel horse to watch him compete. “By the way, let’s go,” shouted his sister after he turned around.

Nedoroscik quickly won over spectators when he helped lead the US men’s gymnastics team to its first Olympic medal in 16 years, earning bronze on Monday, July 29, along with his teammates. Brody Malone, Fred Richard, Asher Hong again Paul Judah.

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After that victory, Nedoroscik spoke to reporters about his win. “It was just the greatest season of my life, I think,” he said. “[I’m] I am very happy to be there.”

Nedoroscik noted that he had a “really long day” waiting for his schedule, which was last on the list. “I put that in my head as a good thing, like, I can be an exclamation point,” he shared.

Nedoroscik received support from his teammates Malone and Judah, who were cheering him on as he prepared to do his part in the tournament.

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“I said, at that point, I said, ‘Okay, let’s go back. Let’s go out there and do our thing,’” he recalled. “I have [coach] Sam Mikulak just like, like the greatest coach ever. You are up there, helping me control my emotions. You know exactly what to say to me. So when we got that bucket of chalk, she just sat me down and said, ‘You’re ready for this.’ I went up there, I did my routine, and during that descent, I was just smiling.”

Nedoroscik went viral after a photo of himself relaxing as he waited for his turn to become a meme.

“I’m obsessed with this guy on the US men’s gymnastics team who looks like he’s getting a phd in anthropology and his only job is pommel horse,” one fan tweeted about X on Monday.

Viewers also appreciated how Nedoroscik removed his glasses from his show, a move that earned comparisons to Clark Kent.

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“It’s not really clear yet,” he said Today this is his opinion. But the thing about pommel horse if I last [my glasses] they will fly somewhere.”

He added: “When I ride a pommel horse, it’s all about feeling the machines. I can’t really see when I do my gymnastics. Everything is in the hands — I hear everything.”

As Nedoroscik’s popularity grew, his girlfriend, Tess McCrackenshared his reaction to the new attention, he told E! News on Thursday, August 1, that he was “surprised” by the love he received.

“I was trying to show him things, like, ‘You’re a meme, you’re viral. Look at all these things,’” he continued. “And he loved them. He laughed at them. And then, they started. We didn’t know what it would turn into.”