With Brody Malone’s crushing falls putting every US gymnastics fan on edge, day 1 of the París Olympics finally ended with a ray of hope. While Malone’s fall crushed the hopes of many, Team USA qualified for Team Event’s final on the upcoming Monday. From Stephen Nedoroscik leading the three divisions on the pommel horse, Fred Richard & Paul Juda qualifying for all-around has now helped the US Men’s team move inches closer to over a decade’s medal wait.
The entire men’s & women’s team skipped the París Olympics opening ceremony to prepare for competition starting today, and with a few hurdles in their way, their skipping the opening ceremony has come to fruition.

How did it all start & might have ended for Brody Malone?

Team USA’s gymnastics team started day 1 of the París Olympics on a pommel horse. With Paul Juda starting the rotation with near perfection, the same did not follow his successor on the event, Brody Malone. Having come second all around during Olympic trials, Malone’s comeback gave hopes of Team USA ending the curse. Either the pressure got to him or it might be something else, but Malone falling on the pommel horse was something no US fan had in mind. Little did the fans know that it was the start of the domino effect.
While the Stanford gymnast seemed to have recovered from the pommel horse fiasco on still rings, vault, and parallel bars, it all came crashing down on the dreaded high bar. Once the high bar injury that left no bone in his leg unbroken, might have just ended his hopes for a medal in the Paris Olympics.
The US Men’s gymnastics team might not have Brody Malone in the all-around competition, but his contribution, still as important as it could have been helped them move forward to end the medal drought. From not being able to secure any medals in 15 years, Team USA finishing fifth in the team event on day 1 has given the entire gymnastics community hope for a better future.

20-year-old Fred Richard is on the right path to making men’s gymnastics as famous as women’s

Having around a million followers on his social media, Fred Richard clearly said that one of his goals was to make people want to watch men’s gymnastics as much as women’s. While his social media is doing its job, bringing a medal on a platform as big as the Olympics will make his dream come true.
From taking in tips from Noah Lyles to wanting to become the Michael Jordan of Gymnastics, Fred Richard might do for men’s gymnastics what Simone Biles did for Women’s.