Rising Star Malone Headlines Men’s Olympic Gymnastics Team
ST. LOUIS Brody Malone tried to block it all out. The stakes. The scores. The noise. His ears wouldn’t cooperate.
So yeah, Malone knew exactly where he was in the standings at the U.S. Olympic Trials on Saturday. In the lead. In control. And comfortable.
Good thing, because the 20-year-old with the soft southern drawl that betrays his Northwest Georgia roots better get used to it. He’s probably going to be there for a while.
Equal parts stoic and spectacular, Malone put on a command performance while racing to victory and the automatic berth on the Olympic team that came with it. Malone’s all-around total of 171.600 was a good three points ahead of Yul Moldauer and the rest of the field.
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Their history hung directly over their heads, written in the banners dangling from the Maturi Pavilion rafters. Each panel told a piece of the Gophers 118-year-old story: their first Big Ten championship in 1903, John Roethlisberger s brilliant run in the 1990s, Shane Wiskus 2019 NCAA championship on parallel bars.
Gophers gymnast Mike Moran didn t think about those broad strokes Saturday, when the program s timeline ended at the NCAA men s gymnastics championships. He focused tightly on the small moments of the Gophers final meet as a varsity sport, the ones he wanted to remember for the rest of his life. The whole meet, I was trying to actively remember every hug, every cheer, Moran said. Because it was tough, knowing through the whole meet that once you hit that final dismount, you are done.