November 13, 2024

Gymnasts Go Gold!

Sports The Journal 2024

Gymnasts Go Gold!

By: Emila Zhang

At the 2024 Olympics, Team USA Gymnasts took the medals. Both the men’s and the women’s sides won many medals. The USA men’s and women’s teams won 10 medals. That included three gold, one silver, and six bronze medals.


Team USA men had not won a single medal since Beijing, China 2008 games. But during those 16 years of struggle and practice, they finally succeeded. At the Paris games, the men won Bronze. After the team’s flawed performance at trials for the games. Captain Brody Malone fell during multiple routines with many flaws, so the team came in fifth; Malone’s problem was based on an old knee injury 16 months ago.


But Malone did not give up and kept trying, leading the five-person team to win bronze. Before the finals, Malone called his teammates in a huddle and told them to “stay in our own bubble” and “focus on what we are doing.”


“You just have to be short term memory with it,” Malone said. “You just got to forget about it.It was over and done with. There is nothing I can do about it. I just had to focus on the next day, and that is what we did. And it ended up working out great.”


The men’s team won another bronze medal at the in-the-individual competition on August 3, 2024. Fellow gymnasts Paul Juda, Asher Hong, and Frederick Richard, according to Dogo News, “nailed their routines.”However, the last contestant would determine the result. Stephen Nedoroscik, whose routine was the pommel horse. Nedoroscik excelled and won the team the bronze.


“When I’m doing my gymnastics, it’s all on the hands. I just feel everything. “said Nedoroscik to Today News.


It wasjust another medal at the Olympics, but for the USA men’s team, it was history.

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