Snowboarder Shaun White’s record-breaking, gold-medal-winning final run in the men’s halfpipe event on Wednesday morning at the 2018 Winter Olympics left him in tears — along, it seems, with much of Twitter.

“I literally (literally, read this literally) never want to stop watch Shaun White cry for this gold. I would watch it during my wedding and through the birth of my first born child if I could,” wrote one user minutes after his come-from-behind victory as he trailed Japan’s Ayumu Hirano by one point. “TAP INTO THOSE EMOTIONS SHAUNY FEEL WHAT U WANNA FEEL BUDDY.”

Others felt just as moved by White’s weeping reaction to his win.

“Shaun White hugging and crying into his moms shoulder is giving me all the feels as a mama,” M’lady Callahan‏ tweeted, while Clayton Garcia posted: “The pure emotion on Shaun White’s face is why any athlete competes. Wish everyone could get a little taste of that. I love the Olympics.”

Such emotion was even motivational.

“Shaun White hugging is family, crying, and saying ‘I’m so happy! All of that hard work!’ Is extremely inspiring to never give up on your goals,” wrote Dalton Schnabel.

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I just want to feel one tenth of what Shaun White felt immediately after he landed that last trick,” Gabe Dahl tweeted. “You know what you have to do, the world is watching, it all comes down to this, and you just execute it perfectly…”

White, 31, went into these Games a two-time gold medalist in the halfpipe but was less than six months out from a bloody crash in New Zealand that required 62 stitches in his face. What’s more, his previous showing, in Russia in 2014, had been disappointing and he finished just off the podium in fourth.

Still, speaking to PEOPLE in Pyeongchang, South Korea, a few days before his competition, White said he could imagine what he needed to do to earn a gold — his third, the only snowboarder in history to have that many; and America’s 100th in all Winter Olympics.

“I’ve had it in my mind of what it would like, and I can visually see myself going through the run and seeing all the people that I know are coming out here at the bottom — like I can just see it,” he said.

“It’s just all about getting there and kind of matching that vision with reality,” he told PEOPLE, “because that’s what’s happened before in the past Olympics. But it would mean the world to me.”

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