On Monday night, Team USA's men's gymnastics team earned their first medal — a third-place bronze — for the first time since George Bush was in the Oval Office. While the long-awaited medal moment spoke to the combined talents of the five-person team, it was Pommel Horse Guy's efforts that propelled them to the podium.
Unlike his teammates, Stephen Nedoroscik was the only member of the group to qualify for a single event at the Olympics, the pommel horse, a notoriously difficult event that requires athletes to continuously balance and swing their bodies atop an apparatus with two handles using only their hands (and impressive core strength) to support themselves.
