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Japan is back atop the medal podium in men’s gymnastics, and by the narrowest of margins.
The country just edged past China to win gold in a battle between the two favorites heading into the event, winning by a minuscule 0.532, while the United States got on the podium as well with a bronze medal in dramatic fashion.
Japan: 259.594 pointsChina: 259.062 pointsUnited States: 257.793 pointsGreat Britain: 255.527 pointsUkraine: 254.761 pointsItaly: 248.260 pointsSwitzerland: 247.427 pointsCanada: 245.426 points
While the competition for gold and silver seemed almost a foregone conclusion heading into the event, the battle for bronze was very much up for grabs between the United States, Great Britain and Ukraine.
In the end, it was Stephen Nedoroscik’s epic performance on the pommel horse that helped the United States clinch the bronze:
NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics
Stephen Nedoroscik had to score big on pommel horse for Team USA in the last rotation…
AND HE DID. 🤯
📺: NBC and Peacock pic.twitter.com/hkhiHpovyh
Matt Ellentuck @mellentuck
olympic bronze medalist and pommel horse legend stephen nedoroscik you deserve to be more famous pic.twitter.com/tzPfz16fzD
Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbach
American icon. pic.twitter.com/C5ity3ELTA
Dan Woike @DanWoikeSports
Reason 7,593 why I enjoy the Olympics… Stephen Nedoroscik sits around and waits for hours for 45 seconds and the dud takes off his specks, knocks it out of the park, wins a medal and has a story for the rest of his life that will make his family cry tears of pride. https://t.co/lvffX4Mqmt
Nick Zaccardi @nzaccardi
2008 Olympic team final: Sasha Artemev, in his lone routine and last USA routine of the event, hits pommel horse to clinch bronze (by 1.25).
2024 final: Stephen Nedoroscik, in his lone routine and last USA routine of the event, hits pommel horse to clinch bronze (by 2.266).
Megan 📚 @MegWritesBooks
Obsessed with this guy on the US men’s gymnastics team who’s only job is pommel horse, so he just sits there until he’s activated like a sleeper agent, whips off his glasses like Clark Kent and does a pommel horse routine that helps deliver the team its first medal in 16 years. pic.twitter.com/0D1ZqJjFa1
sean yoo @SeanYoo
taking off your glasses to then perform a near perfect routine on the pommel horse is so freaking metal
Great Britain took third overall in qualification, while the United States finished fifth.
But the American men turned it up a gear in the final.
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