Historic Moment For U.S. Olympics Will Give You Goosebumps: Watch

PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA — It finally happened. The United States won its first ever gold medal in Olympic cross-country skiing in stunning, razor-thin fashion.

Before Wednesday, no American woman had medaled in cross-country skiing at the Olympics, and Bill Koch was the only American to have ever medaled in the sport (he won the bronze back in 1976). While most of the nation was asleep, two U.S. women changed that.

In the team sprint, two teammates "pass the relay" to each other three times over the course of 15 kilometers. In the final lap of the women's team sprint Wednesday, Minnesota native Jessie Diggins, 26, passed Norway's Marit Bjoergen (the winningest Winter Olympian of all time with 14 medals) and darted narrowly ahead of Sweden's Stina Nilsson just before crossing the finish line.

"Here comes Diggins! Here comes Diggins!" screamed the American play-by-play announcer in a hoarse voice as the skiers entered the final stretch. "Yes! Yes! Yes! Gold!"

Diggins fell to the ground and screamed with joy before her teammate Kikkan Randall jumped on her and joined in on the celebration.

Randall, 35, is the only mother representing Team USA in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

“It was this race in particular that really motivated me to go for one more Olympics, and really pushed me through this comeback after having my son," she told NBC Today. "It’s been so fun. This family on this team has been helping me raise Breck. It’s just so cool. I hope it gives a lot of inspiration to all the moms out there that you can come back to being active and physical and stronger than you’ve ever been.”

"It was so, so cool to do this as a team," Diggins told the network. "There are so many strong women on this team that could have also been skiing these legs and we were just honored to represent Team USA out there."

Watch the historic moment (with the sound up):

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