Frederick Richard thinks the U.S. mens gymnastics teams success at the Olympics is just the start NBC Boston [Video]

Frederick Richard understands it will take a lot for Americans to get involved in men’s gymnastics.

It’s an uphill climb. A steep one at that. The 20-year-old Stoughton, Massachusetts, native who has made it his life’s mission to have people care about his chosen sport knows this only too well.

Yet there was a shift during his first trip to the Olympics. Richard could feel it.

It wasn’t just the bronze he helped the five-man U.S. team secure on Monday. It wasn’t just the spike in followers across his social media platforms, though that was certainly nice for the man behind “Frederick Flips.” It wasn’t just the overall sense of momentum inside a men’s program that had spent a decade running in place.

It was all of it at an event he hopes serves as a launching pad toward the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.

“I can see it,” Richard …