Stephen Nedoroscik Reacts to ‘Superior’ Clark Kent Comparability Memes

Stephen Nedoroscik is having one tremendous Summer time Olympics, alright.

The 25-year-old gymnast helped Staff USA take residence an Olympic bronze medal on Monday, July 29 together with his unimaginable pommel horse routine. However whereas his efficiency earned loads of reward on-line, followers had been equally vocal in regards to the glasses-wearing Massachusetts native’s resemblance to Clark Kent, Superman’s alter ego.

Wrote one fan on X: “Stephen Nedoroscik is like Clark Kent, however when he takes off his glasses, he is Superman on the pommel horse.”

“All I’m saying is we’ve by no means seen Stephen Nedoroscik and Clark Kent in the identical room…” stated one other.

Even NBC’s official Olympics account received in on the motion, calling Nedoroscik “the Clark Kent of pommel horse” on X and sharing a side-by-side picture of him and of the late Christopher Reeve enjoying Kent in one of many Superman movies.

Requested in regards to the memes throughout an interview on the In the present day present on Tuesday, July 30, Nedoroscik embraced them, saying he is seen them and finds them humorous.

“I feel they’re superior,” stated Nedoroscik. “You realize, representing the folks that put on glasses nicely.”

Hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie then requested whether or not he has been stopped but as he “walks down the streets” due to the memes.

“Oh, not fairly but,” he stated — although Kotb and Guthrie teased it would be taking place quickly sufficient.

Nedoroscik wears glasses as a result of he has strabismus, a situation the place one eye is turned in a course that is completely different from the opposite. Extra generally often known as crossed eyes, it may well result in double imaginative and prescient — although, as Nedoroscik demonstrated in an August 2022 TikTok, he can alternate which eye is the dominant eye.

Requested on In the present day by Kotb, 59, and Guthrie, 52, about how he was capable of perform his pommel horse routine with out using his glasses, Nedoroscik admitted he would not see.

“It’s not essentially clear,” the gymnast stated. “However the factor about pommel horse is that if I maintain [the glasses] on, they’re going to fly someplace.” 

As an alternative, Nedoroscik depends on his instinct. “Once I go up on the pommel horse, it’s all about feeling the gear,” he defined. “I don’t even actually see after I’m doing my gymnastics. It’s all within the fingers. I can really feel every little thing.”

Following Nedoroscik’s show on the pommel horse, which helped the U.S. males’s gymnastic workforce win their first Olympic medal in 16 years, the athelete spoke with reporters about what it felt prefer to have succeeded in garnering a excessive rating on the equipment.

“It was simply the best second of my life, I feel,” the athlete advised reporters, together with PEOPLE, in Paris of acing his routine with a 14.866. “[I’m] so completely happy to have been there.”

The sportsman stated it’d been a “actually lengthy day” main as much as his second within the highlight, however that he accomplished his respiration workouts to remain calm. He stated he heard large cheers for Brody Malone and Paul Juda, who had been set to go up earlier than him, and knew that they had been setting him up for fulfillment.

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“I sort of, in that second, was like, ‘Alright, let’s run it again, then. Let’s go on the market and do our factor,’ ” he stated. “I’ve [coach] Sam Mikulak as identical to, the best coach of all time. He’s up there, serving to me maintain the nerves in test. He is aware of precisely what to say to me.” 

“So after we received that chalk bucket, he sort of simply settled me down and stated, ‘You’re prepared for this.’ I went up there, did my routine and through that dismount, I used to be identical to, already smiling,” he added.

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