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For many budding Olympians, this year’s Olympic Games is a once-in-a-lifetime shot at glory, and for most athletes it’s a ball of nerves, giddiness and focus. Unless, obviously, you’re on the internet Favorite “Pommel Horse Guy.” Otherwise known as Team America’s Stephen Nedroski. The gymnast and pommel horse specialist won over the audience not because of his flawless execution on his chosen weapon, but because of his willingness to sleep, cool down and look boring for three or more hours. The moment he mounts the pommel horse. It seems that the Olympians are quiet in power. especially people, Love His “nerdy boy” glasses. Technically, he’s the sole reason for Team USA’s men’s gymnastics team. broke The 16-year medal drought ended Monday, according to NBC News. In other words, he is more than Pommel Horse Guy.
The 25-year-old Penn State graduate has been tapped to fill a special need for Team USA, according to NBC. The men’s gymnastics team had not won a medal since Bush was in office, and naturally had to contend with the beauty and unlimited grandeur of the women’s team. Although gymnasts often have a special apparatus or performance, they typically have to compete in multiple events to make the Olympic team. Not so for Pommel Horse Guy. Nedoroskik was so good at the pommel horse and the pommel horse that the team did something special for him, the guy pretending to fall asleep next to them (NBC says he was just meditating) to bring home the gold… he could manage. Sure enough, with the help of Nedoroszczyk, they secured a bronze medal in Monday’s team finals. Big deal to Pommel Horse Guy.
Defeating team spirit aside, Pommel Horse Guy feels like the ultimate Olympic answer to our nation’s general online corruption. The juxtaposition of this person looking so bored at a high-energy event like the Paris Games seems awful. Also, it’s not like Nedoroskik is a specialist in floor or parallel bars, he’s as silly and silly-sounding as a pommel horse in the apparatus. It’s literally an internet cat. It’s no surprise that he was the only American to qualify for the individual weapon final in Paris. Whatever the vibrations, they are working. We salute you Nedorosky for your great American duty.