Tears streamed down Saya Sakakibara's face as she embraced her brother Kai with a gold medal around her neck.
She ran straight from the medal podium into brother's arms.
Let's be honest, if you know half of what happened on the way there, you'd be in tears too.
Saya finished what she started as a four-year-old who followed her brother in BMX. Those years racing for Southlake Illawarra BMX Club all added up.
In Paris watched by her family, including Kai who suffered a life-changing brain injury after a crash in a World Cup race in Bathurst in 2020, Sakakibara rode the race of her life to become the first Australian BMX cyclist to win Olympic gold.
It was the very definition of emotional.
Along the way, Saya, too, suffered injury and heartbreak.
As Kai slowly emerged from a coma that lasted two months and faced a life very different to the one he'd known, Saya didn't just qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, she stormed into the semi-finals.
But a race away from the medals, she crashed out and was carried off the race course, unconscious on a stretcher. Prolonged concussion symptoms and the emotional toll had her seriously considering quitting BMX.
She didn't. Obviously.
Instead, she won back-to-back world championships - and now Olympic gold.
"It is crazy. I feel that it's a dream. It is real, right?," Saya told TV cameras, adding she visualised standing on the podium before the race.
"Every setback I had ... I thought I am going to give this another crack, I just had that in mind. I didn't want to leave here without making myself proud, make these setbacks worthwhile."
"My family is here, everything that I've been through in the last two, three years, this was what got me going," Sakakibara said.
'I just visioned the moment, I visualised being on the podium, hearing the national anthem and having the gold medal around my neck. I envisaged that,' Sakakibara said.
'Every setback I had since the moment I was on, I thought I am going to give this another crack, I just had that in mind. I wanted it, I wanted it.
'Just f---king go'
'I knew it just comes down to like a split second and all I had to do was just f---ng go.'
She went alright. Despite having COVID earlier in the week, in the final, daylight was second.
In reality, Saya won by a whopping seven-tenths ahead of second ahead of Manon Veenstra from the Netherlands, with Switzerland's Zoé Claessens third.
And if that's not enough, at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines circuit the 24-year-old revealed she had COVID earlier this week.
It was Australia's second BMX medal after Queenslander Natalya Diehm won bronze in the BMX freestyle on Wednesday.
