Stephen Nedoroscik is leaning into his newfound stardom as a geeky, bespectacled, Rubik’s Cube-solving video gamer who just won two bronze medals at the Paris Olympics.
“It’s still just surreal to me. I wake up in the morning, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m a two-time Olympic medalist!' It is so cool,” he told The Associated Press. With both medals hanging around his neck, he beamed and laughed as he marveled at his rise to fame and the attention his specialty in gymnastics is receiving.
“It’s still just surreal to me. I wake up in the morning, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m a two-time Olympic medalist!' It is so cool,” he told The Associated Press. With both medals hanging around his neck, he beamed and laughed as he marveled at his rise to fame and the attention his specialty in gymnastics is receiving.
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00:00I'm soaking it all in you know and I can't even like fully soak it all in yet
00:15like it's still just surreal to me I wake up in the morning I'm like oh my
00:17gosh I'm a two-time Olympic medalist it is so cool and I'm just honored to
00:22represent my country out here and I'm so happy with what I've done.
00:25Even just last week for the first time I met someone else with the same eye
00:29condition as me I have coloboma and this young boy came up to me at this mom and
00:33she introduced him and said hey like he's never met someone with the same eye
00:37disease as him and he really wanted to meet you so it's really awesome being
00:41able to meet someone because it's also my first time meeting someone outside my
00:45family that has that disease so it's so cool to see that and you know he was
00:49just so happy I gave him a pin.
00:59you