Stephen Nedoroscik waited his whole life for one routine. The US pommel horse specialist nailed it [Video]

Sam Mikulak pulled Stephen Nedoroscik close and tasked the American pommel horse specialist with the impossible.The U.S. men’s gymnastics team’s first Olympic medal in 16 years a solitary routine away, Mikulak told the pommel horse specialist that he didn’t need to go all out. That 80% would be good enough, even though Mikulak knew full well that Nedoroscik never does anything — from his sport to solving a Rubik’s Cube — at 80%.”You have to trick yourself,” said Mikulak, a three-time Olympian turned coach. “You’ve got to make sure you don’t let all the noise get into your head.”That usually isn’t a problem for the 25-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts. It takes a certain type of single-mindedness to make the choices Nedoroscik has made for the last decade, when he essentially decided to dedicate himself to a single pursuit, focusing on an event that has long been a weakness for the …