America went with no medal in males’s gymnastics previously three Olympic Video games, however that modified in Paris thanks to 2 Massachusetts natives.
Frederick Richard of Stoughton, Mass., and Stephen Nedoroscik of Worcester, Mass., each gained bronze medals within the males’s group last on Monday. Workforce USA completed with a group rating of 257.793 behind Japan, which took gold, and China, which took silver.
Richard delivered team-high scorer performances on the parallel bars, the horizontal bar and the ground. Nedoroscik got here to Paris as a pommel horse specialist, and he wanted to ship a near-perfect efficiency to safe a medal for the USA. The 26-year-old Worcester Technical Excessive Faculty graduate did simply that a lot to the delight of followers on social media who dubbed Nedoroscik “pommel horse man” together with a flood of memes.
Workforce USA’s bronze medal within the group last was the primary Olympic medal for the U.S. since Beijing in 2008.
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“It is sinking in, nevertheless it nonetheless feels fairly unreal,” Richard stated, per The Boston Globe’s Tara Sullivan. “We’ll be written in historical past. All of us. That is loopy to consider. They used to have photos in my gymnasium of the previous Olympic groups that medaled and I might have a look at that and suppose, ‘Man, what if I used to be a type of individuals in the future?’
Richard and Nedoroscik will get one other likelihood within the highlight in Wednesday’s all-around last in a subject of 24 gymnasts.
