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The 2024 Winter Cup, known officially as the Kentucky Winter Classic, was an artistic gymnastics competition held at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, on February 23–25, 2024. [1] As in recent years, the competition included men's and women's gymnastics.
The first edition of the Winter Cup was held in 1997 and was initially a men's artistic gymnastics competition. Women competed at the event for the first time in 2021. [ 1 ] The competition had a combined senior and junior field until 2018.
Stephen John Nedoroscik OLY (/ ˌ n ɛ d ə ˈ r ɒ z ɪ k / NED-ə-ROZ-ik; born October 28, 1998) [1] is an American artistic gymnast.A pommel horse specialist, he is a two-time Olympic medalist, the 2021 world champion—the first and only American to win the event—a two-time FIG World Cup champion, a four-time U.S. national champion, and a two-time NCAA national champion for the apparatus.
Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. [ 2 ] The most common form of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics (AG); for women, the events include floor , vault , uneven bars , and balance beam ; for men, besides floor and ...
Stephen Nedoroscik competed in pommel horse in both the 2024 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships and the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, where his combined score placed him first. He was selected for ...
Nedoroscik became an American hero — and viral meme— after helping the men’s gymnastic team win the bronze medal with a seamless pommel horse routine on July 29. It was the team’s first ...
A gymnast on the pommel horse. The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. Traditionally, it is used by only male gymnasts.Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, the modern pommel horse has a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles (or pommels).
To a lot of gymnastics observers, Nedoroscik didn't belong on USA's Olympics team. To be fair, a one-event specialist in a six-event competition with five-man teams doesn't sound at a glance like ...