Sam Mikulak pulled Stephen Nedoroscik close and tasked the American pommel horse specialist with the impossible.
Stephen Nedoroscik , of United States, gets a hug from Paul Juda after last rotation during the men's artistic gymnastics team finals round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics , Monday, July 29, 2024, in Paris, France. The U.S. men's gymnastics team's first Olympic medal in 16 years a solitary routine away, Mikulak told the pommel horse specialist that he didn't need to go all out.
While Nedoroscik had some wiggle room, the U.S. had a fairly healthy lead after Juda and Malone hit their sets before Nedoroscik saluted the judges, he also didn't want to merely hold on. He wanted to prove a point.What followed were 45 seconds of sublime brilliance, with Nedoroscik's hands traveling from one end of the horse to the other, his legs swooping this way, then that.
All those years, all those reps, both physical and mental, all the difficult times when he wondered whether to keep going, all the quirks he's developed along the way, from the non-prescription goggles he sometimes rocks to the chef's kiss to the camera he occasionally makes, led up to that moment. Nedoroscik understood the history. It's one of the reasons he gravitated toward pommels. Another is the fact that it requires many things — stamina, strength and creativity chief among them — that he has in spades, particularly that last one.
Unlike other events, which are painstakingly laid out and practiced on end for months if not years, pommel horse allows gymnasts to color outside the lines and make things up as they go on. Miss an element here? Well, maybe you can make it up trying something else later in the routine.
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