PARIS — ” Pommel Horse Guy ” got back on the pommel horse Saturday afternoon.
And once again, he will leave with an Olympic medal .
Stephen Nedoroscik , who trains at EVO Gymnastics in Sarasota, became just the second American man in four decades to medal in this event at the Summer Games, hanging on to win bronze in a thrilling final at Bercy Arena. Nedoroscik beat out two-time defending Olympic champion Max Whitlock of Great Britain for the final spot on the podium, behind gold medalist Rhys McClenaghan of Ireland and Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan, who took silver.
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“It’s just been unbelievable,” he said after winning bronze. “I’ve just consistently been on top of the world for like a week now.”
Nedoroscik was the only U.S. man to qualify for an apparatus final at the Paris Olympics . His score of 15.300 included an excellent mark for execution (8.900) on this notoriously tricky event and moved him one-tenth of a point ahead of Whitlock. McClenaghan and Kurbanov won out with more difficult routines.