Alysa Liu’s exuberance in her gold medal figure skating routine spiked during her celebration at the Winter Olympics on Thursday.
“That’s what I’m fucking talking about!” she yelled into the camera like a person who knew she had nailed it.
The American’s unfiltered joy apparently made it to air on the live broadcast, but got censored by NBC on its X and YouTube entries. It’s been preserved elsewhere, however.
You might agree that the edited reaction on some of the network’s platforms didn’t have quite the same impact.
Liu’s gold was the U.S. women’s first individual figure skating win at the Games since 2002.
Earlier in the week, U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin dropped a defiant F-bomb online that went viral after she ended her personal Olympics slump with a gold medal in the slalom.
“I fucking won,” she wrote.
Two amazing athletes got to exhale with a hellacious hiccup of unvarnished, unbridled jubilation.
To that, we say, ”@#*$ yeah!”