Stephen Nedoroscik is ready for Dancing with the Stars' 34th season which starts on January 7, 2025, in Virginia. He entered the 33rd season of DWTS as the first celebrity contestant after he collected two bronze medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Penn State alum performed with partner Rylee Arnold on the reality show and finished fourth. After the stint, he was named co-host of the 2025 DWTS Tour. In anticipation of the event, he took to his Instagram story to share a snap of the Floridan sky while in a car, writing:
"Let's get this show on the road. (This might be the only time in my life I can say that literally)"
The two-time Olympic medalist will stop at his alma mater for the DWTS Tour stop on January 23, 2025. The tour will include Emmy-winning choreographer, Mandy Moore, the La La Land, and 'The Eras Tour' fame.
On January 1, 2025, Nedoroscik and his girlfriend Tess McCracken posed with their cat Kyushu in an Instagram post and wished their followers with Olympic medals around their necks, captioned:
"Happy Holidays from our family to you and yours."
Nedoroscik, the pommel horse specialist was the last to perform in the team competition at the Paris Olympics, contributing to the US men's gymnastics team's third-place finish. The team's Olympic medal win was the first since the US men's team medaled in 2008. He also clinched the individual pommel horse bronze, becoming the fourth US gymnast to win in the apparatus since World War II.
Stephen Nedoroscik 'broke physics' with his pommel horse maneuver
On December 23, 2024, Stephen Nedoroscik shared a video on his Instagram handle, offering a glimpse of training inside the gym, twisting on the apparatus, captioned:
"Breaking physics, breaking wrists"
Nedoroscik cinched the National pommel horse title in his freshman season with the Penn State Nittany Lions. At the 2021 World Championships, he won the pommel horse title, becoming the first US male gymnast to achieve so since 2011. In the 2012 World edition, he was the only US gymnast among both men and women to clinch the gold podium.