'Pommel horse guy' Stephen Nedoroscik wins another bronze at 2024 Paris Olympics

Stephen Nedoroscik has won yet another bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics after finishing on the podium in the men's pommel horse final. 

The 25-year-old, Massachusetts native registered a score of 15.300 on Saturday to claim his second prize of the summer, trailing gold medalist Rhys McClenaghan, of Ireland, and runner-up Nariman Kurbanov, of Kazakhstan. 

Briton Max Whitlock, the twice defending Olympic champion on the apparatus, was edged off the medal podium by 0.1 point, finishing in fourth despite besting his qualification score.

Nedoroscik, dubbed as the 'Pommel Horse Guy,' went viral last week after helping the US to a third pace medal finish in the team event. He's also been likened to Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent, due to the googles he wears while competing.

Reacted to Nedoroscik's second bronze finish on Saturday, a fan on X posted: 'Stephen Nedorosciak proving he's the specialist we all admire!'

'GLASSES GOAT,' wrote another user while someone else said: 'Clark Kent got it done. I'm so happy!'

A different fan also pointed out that Nedoroscik, who he described as a 'nerd boy,' 'made the pommel horse cool!!' 

Competing at his first ever Olympics, Nedoroscik is not only a former two-time NCAA champ with Penn State but also a world champion. His four US pommel horse titles are tied for the most in history, too. 

'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,' a fan posted on X after Nedoroscik's first bronze last week.

But Nedoroscik was known as 'spider monkey' during his youth, when he would 'shimmy up the walls and scare babysitters.'

'On my first day (at school), I climbed a rope all the way to the top. After that they invited me to join the gymnastics team. We accepted it and that was it,' Nedoroscik recently revealed. 

Two decades later, his displays on the pommel horse helped him become known worldwide alongside his teammates Frederick Richard, Brody Malone, Paul Juda and Asher Hong. 

Nedoroscik suffers from strabismus, a condition more typically known as crossed eyes. It can lead to double vision but the gymnast was not wearing glasses on Saturday. 

Nedoroscik told Today.com that he is ‘representing people that wear glasses well’, revealing that though his vision is ‘not necessarily clear… the thing about pommel horse is if I keep [my glasses] on, they’re gonna fly somewhere.

‘When I go up on the pommel horse, it’s all about feeling the equipment. I don’t even really see when I’m doing my gymnastics. It’s all in the hands – I can feel everything,’ he explained.