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PARIS — Stephen Nedoroscik, the only specialist on the U.S. men's gymnastics team, has delivered an impressive routine during Saturday's qualification. With no room for mistake and about 45 seconds to make an impression on judges, the pommel horse specialistexcelled. Competing at his first Olympics, the 25-year-old former pommel horse world champion edged two-time Olympic champion Max Whitlock with a 15.200 to his British rival's 15.166. Both men will compete again in the apparatus' final next week.
