PARIS — On Saturday morning, after Stephen Nedoroscik finished his pommel horse routine, Paul Juda pointed to Nedoroscik’s forearm: “You’ve got goosebumps,’’ he said. After the men’s gymnastics team’s final, Nedoroscik gave them to everyone else.
Brought to Paris to nail one routine and one routine only, the pommel horse specialist delivered in the most dramatic of Olympic fashions. The last man up for the U.S., Nedoroscik had to wait the entirety of the meet — more than two hours — before walking up to the pommel horse. As China, the leader after five rotations, fell repeatedly on the horizontal bar, Nedoroscik stepped up to give the U.S. not only
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