At only 15 years old, figure skater Kamila Valieva produced a sight that had never been seen in the 114-year history of women's Olympic figure skating until Monday.
The precocious Russian Olympic Committee skater made history in her Olympic debut in Beijing when she became the first woman in history to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics.
Not only that, she did it twice. During the team free skate event, she nailed a pair of jumps in which she executed four revolutions in mid-air, a quad salchow and a quad toe with a triple-toe combination.
Valieva's brilliance helped lead ROC to the figure skating team gold medal ahead of the United States, which took silver.
NBC Olympic analysts Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, a pair of decorated former Olympic skaters themselves, were blown away by Valieva's performance.
"If that performance didn’t inspire the whole world to take up ice skating, I don’t know what would," Weir said on the broadcast.
While a quad had never been successfully landed in the Olympics before, Valieva entered Beijing with the expectations that she would land at least one.
She already holds multiple world records, and she was part of a group of seven women at last month's Russian Championships who attempted 18 quads and landed 11 of them, according to NBC Olympics.
Her teammate, Alexandra Trusova, 17, is nicknamed the "Quad Queen" for her ability to do four different types of quad jumps, and she landed five quads at an event in Russia in September.
Valieva’s feat came 30 years after French skater Surya Bonaly first attempted a quad at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville. But her jump was not counted as a successful attempt because the judges deemed she did not complete the full rotation.
Only one other woman is believed to have even attempted a quad since Bonaly: Japan's Miki Ando, who fell on her attempt in 2006. The move is not permitted in women's short programs, but is allowed in the free skate.
Men’s figure skaters have been landing quads at the Olympics since 1998, but Valieva’s seemingly effortless performance on Monday was a breakthrough for the women. American skater Alysa Liu, 16, has landed a quad in sanctioned competition but never at the Olympics, according to NBC Olympics.