The whole of Australia was riding with Arisa Trew as she navigated her third and final run of the women's skateboarding park final – but none more than Nine commentators Mitch Tomlinson and Nick Boserio.
Behind-the-scenes footage of the pair's passionate call shows them jumping up and down in the commentary box as Trew skated her way to the gold-medal position.
The pair were obviously excited by Trew's performance, who at 14 years and 86 days became Australia's youngest-ever Olympic champion.
Watch Tomlinson and Boserio's hilarious reaction to Trew's golden run in the video above.
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In her first run, Trew fell to record a dismal 35.53.
But she recovered and in her second run scored 90.11 — a great outcome to put her into silver.
Heading into her final 45-second run, Trew was sitting in third and looked likely to stay there. She required a score of 91.99 to snatch first position.
Embracing an "all or nothing" approach, the Gold Coast skater unleashed, obtaining a best score of 93.18 to catapult her to the top step of the podium.
Wide World of Sports takes a deeper look at Trew's incredible last run.
Standing at the top of the hollowed-out concrete bowl, Trew knew she had to land every one of her tricks.
Taking off, she kicked her sequence off with a backside 360 into a 540 variation — with the judges taking into consideration how well tricks are strung together throughout the run.
Coming out of this, Trew generated plenty of speed — which the judges are also scoring.
"This one was really good because I had a lot of speed for the body rail five and I knew I could land it," Trew told Nine's coverage as she talked through her final run.
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"Then I got a little bit lost … like usually I go from high to high but I still made it and got to the kickflip indy all good."
She followed with a 50-50 grind.
"I got my gap downs with speed," Trew said.
With 20 seconds left on the clock, she completed a grind off the end, frontside crooks fakie and switch — all helping to boost her score for use of course.
"She's packed so much into this run already," Boserio said in commentary.
But then came the big crescendo with an epic fakie — a trick which is is performed with the skater facing forward while their board is moving backwards frontside.
"It was a bit hard to keep my speed right here, I wasn't sure if I had the speed but when I got on I knew I had it," Trew said.
And didn't the boys love it!
"Let's go, one more," Boserio said.
"Bring it in. Fakie! She's gone fakie! She's gone fakie!"
Throwing her hands in the air, Trew was unsure if she had done enough to take top spot.
"I just wanted to make sure I was more secure on the podium," she said.
"Because I was sitting in third I could have easily been bumped out."
But Tomlinson and Boserio never doubted her.
"Want to talk about sending a message? Arisa Trew, Australia," Boserio said.
"Wall to wall to wall. She's absolutely smashed that third run.
"It looks warm in Paris, but I've got the chills."
Having qualified for the final in sixth position, Trew then had to endure a nail-biting wait as five of her opponents completed their last run.
"I didn't know where I would end up but I was just happy that I landed my run, that was the main goal," she said.
"But you just have to wait and see how it goes, if anyone falls, if they land their run and how it gets scored."
Cocona Hiraki of Japan came the closest with the final run of the competition but her 92.63 was not enough to take the gold off Trew.
"Arisa Trew, under the city of lights, a star is," Tomlinson said.
"Gold for Australia. Absolute gold."
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