The United States is back on the medal stand in men's gymnastics, as Asher Hong and Brody Malone helped Team USA claim bronze for its first team medal since 2008.
Team USA scored a 257.793 during Monday's competition, finishing behind Japan (259.594) and China (259.062).
Asher Hong was consistently great all day long, scoring in the 14s in each of his four events. After finishing just outside the top 8 on still rings and vault as an individual during the qualification round, Hong posted 14.533 and 14.833 routines in those events, respectively, to help propel USA into the medal hunt on Monday. The Tomball, Texas native also posted a 14.133 on floor exercise and closed out his night with a 14.400 on parallel bars.
Brody Malone also bounced back in a major way after an uncharacteristic qualifying round, headlined by a 14.533 vault and 14.433 parallel bars routine. The Cardinal alum also registered 14.166 routines on both horizontal bar and still rings, and helped the United States seal a bronze-medal finish with a 13.700 on pommel horse in the final rotation.
Hong and Malone become just the 2nd and 3rd Olympic medalists in program history, joining 1996 parallel bars silver medalist Jair Lynch.