If you’ve spent any time on social media in the past 24 hours, you’ve probably run into the viral “pommel horse guy” on Team USA’s men’s gymnastics team, which just won bronze—its first Olympic medal in 16 years. That guy’s name is Stephen Nedoroscik, who executed a pommel horse routine that left his teammates cheering, jumping, and fist-pumping with excitement the second he planted his feet back on the ground.
Seconds before he began the routine, Nedoroscik, 25, removed his eyeglasses, earning him the nickname “Clark Kent” on social media as he transitioned into his competitive alter ego. For Nedoroscik, however, those glasses are what keeps his two vision-impairing conditions at bay: strabismus and coloboma, which he publicly addressed on social media.
