Meet Team USA’s "Pommel Horse Guy" Who Had One Job To Do At The Olympics And He Totally Delivered

There’s a new breakout star of the US men’s gymnastics team, and it’s Stephen Nedoroscik, aka “pommel horse guy”.

The 25-year-old from Massachusetts qualified for the Paris Olympics as a pommel horse specialist, selected to compete for his elite skill on the single apparatus.

A video of Nedoroscik’s on the day of the competition on Monday, July 29, has turned him into a social media sensation.

Cameras during the men’s gymnastics team final caught Nedoroscik, wearing his glasses, sitting quietly on the sidelines with his eyes closed waiting to compete.

When it was his turn to compete, Nedoroscik then took off his glasses and delivered, nailing his 40-second routine – the last routine in the last rotation of the Olympic men’s team final.

His clutch performance secured the bronze medal for Team USA – a feat it has not achieved since 2008.

“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 deliver the team its first medal in 16 years,” one person wrote on X in a post that has gone viral.

Nedoroscik has strabismus, or crossed eyes, and often competes without his glasses.

“I don’t even really see when I’m doing my gymnastics” he said. “It’s all in the hands. I can feel everything.”

He will compete in the men’s pommel horse individual event final on Saturday, Aug. 3.

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