Judoka Chelsie Giles won Team GB's first medal at Tokyo 2020 with bronze at -52kg.
The 24-year-old twice threw Swiss Fabienne Kocher for waza'ari to get her nation off the medal mark at the Games.
For an athlete who only made her senior international debut in 2017, it was a dream come true.
Giles dabbles in amateur photography away from the mat and couldn't have staged the scene of her triumph any better; coming at the Nippon Budokan, the spiritual home of her sport.
"I believed I could do it, my coach has always believed I could and it showed in today's performance," she said.
"It feels very special to do it in Japan. It's an amazing arena and the atmosphere was amazing. To do it where Japan started the sport, it makes it extra special.
"I never underestimate any of my opponents, that's where mistakes are made. I go into the fight knowing what they do, and knowing what I'm capable of doing.
"With my best performance, I know I can beat some of the top players and today showed that."
Sharon Rendle's gold at Seoul 1988 was Britain's last medal in the women's half-lightweight category.
Britain's judokas have now produced medals at each of the last three Games, with Giles following in the footsteps of Gemma Gibbons, Karina Bryant and Sally Conway.
It was a medal made in Coventry, where she started the martial art at Coventry Judo Club aged eight, and her brother had practised from the age of five.
Giles's searing strength on the floor shone through on the biggest stage at the brutal expense of early opponents.
She took care of Macedonia's Arbresha Rexhepi inside a minute with a sankaku-jime chokehold and then Morocco's Soumiya Iraoui with a kuzure-kami-shiho-gatame hold for ippon.
Then came Uta Abe, one of the Brit's idols in the sport, who she took all the way to golden score. The Japanese, who went on to take the gold medal, produced a waza'ari to take victory after four minutes of grappling.
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London 2012 bronze medallist Charline van Snick stood in the way of the bronze medal bout, and she countered the Belgian in devastating style for ippon in golden score to progress to the scene of her triumph.
Giles has squeezed every ounce of benefit from an extra year's preparation.
She won Grand Slam gold in Tel Aviv in February and silver in Tblisi a month later, an upturn she puts down to a mental switch that flicked in early 2020, when she realised she wasn't making the most of her talent.
"A year ago, I'd have said she wasn't quite ready," was how Britain's most recognisable judoka, Neil Adams, put it.
When the moment came, she certainly was ready.