The pommel horse specialist became a breakout star as the American men won bronze in the team gymnastics. He said it was a win for his fellow glasses wearers
Nearly 167 million American adults wear prescription glasses. Only one is a pommel horse hero.
Stephen Nedoroscik, a 25-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, has strabismus, more commonly known as crossed eyes, which can lead to double vision. He won gold on the pommel horse at the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships but was not wearing glasses when scoring 14.866 on the pommel horse in Paris on Monday, a performance that secured a bronze, the first gymnastics men’s team medal for the US since 2008.
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