USA Men’s Gymnastics team hold up their bronze medals after the Men’s Team Final at the Olympic Games 2024 atBercy Arena in Paris, France. (Photo by Getty Images)
The 2024 USA Men’s Gymnastics, consisting of Asher Hong, Paul Juda, Brody Malone, Stephen Nedoroscik, and Frederick Richard bagged a total score of 257.793 points to settle in third place. They were surpassed by the Japanese and Chinese squads, who collected 259.594 and 259.062 points, respectively.
The team collected a total of 42.799 points in the floor exercise and 42.466 points in the pommel horse events. The American team scored their highest points in the vault event with 44.032 points and gathered 42.732 points on rings. They scored the fourth-highest point in parallel bars with 42.399 points and settled for 42.365 points in horizontal bars.
While the whole team delivered a stunning performance, it was Brody who proved to be crucial for the team’s triumph. He competed in five events, collecting a whopping 14.533 points on vault and 14.433 on parallel bars. The 24-year-old scored 14.166 points on rings and horizontal bars, and 13.700 on pommel horse.
The Stanford University gymnast redeemed himself with a stellar performance after an underwhelming show in the qualifying rounds.
Stephen Nedoroscik is the only USA Men’s Gymnastics team member to earn a spot for the individual event finals at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Stephen Nedoroscik became the only American male gymnast from the USA Men’s Gymnastics team to secure a spot to compete in the final round of any individual apparatus event. Nedoroscik decided to compete only in the pommel horse event after wrestling with the other apparatuses while in high school.
The world championships gold medalist of pommel horse scored a whopping total of 15.200 points. to tie with Rhys McClenaghan for first place in the qualifying round in Subdivision 1, on Saturday 27 July 2024. Max Whitlock of Great Britain followed the Irish and American gymnasts with 15.166 points.
Nedoroscik will compete as the frontrunner in the men’s pommel horse final round. The final event is slated for August 3, 2024, at 17:16, according to Paris Time, where he will lock horns with Japan’s Takaaki Sugino and Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev.
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