--- title: Olympics 2018: Mikaël Kingsbury's Parents Watch Him Win Gold description: It may only be day five of the 2018 Winter Olympics, but emotions in PyeongChang, South Korea, are already running high. canonical: https://time.com/5150209/olympics-2018-mikael-kingsbury-parents/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-12T21:55:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:33.251Z og:title: The Internet Gave These Parents a Gold Medal for Cheering Their Son On at the Olympics og:description: The internet is getting emotional about Mikaël Kingsbury's victory og:url: https://time.com/5150209/olympics-2018-mikael-kingsbury-parents/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb5ed24a573bac9/6989272ee76ad2199c630ff5/mikael-kingsbury.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Mikael Kingsbury Wins Gold at 2018 Winter Olympics og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Gave These Parents a Gold Medal for Cheering Their Son On at the Olympics twitter:description: The internet is getting emotional about Mikaël Kingsbury's victory twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb5ed24a573bac9/6989272ee76ad2199c630ff5/mikael-kingsbury.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Gave These Parents a Gold Medal for Cheering Their Son On at the Olympics  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 12, 2018 9:55 PM UTC  Mikael Kingsbury of Canada takes 1st place during the Freestyle Skiing Men's Moguls Finals at Pheonix Snow Park on February 12, 2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea. Mikael Kingsbury of Canada takes 1st place during the Freestyle Skiing Men's Moguls Finals at Pheonix Snow Park on February 12, 2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea.Laurent Salino/Agence Zoom/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 12, 2018 9:55 PM UTC It may only be day five of the 2018 Winter Olympics, but emotions in PyeongChang, South Korea, are already running high. As the parents of Canadian freestyle skier Mikaël Kingsbury watched him take home gold in the men’s moguls final on Monday, their overwhelming joy was contagious. “I’m right beside Kingsbury’s mom and dad,” [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Devin%5FHeroux/status/963036464429674496) CBC News reporter Devin Heroux. “You can sense their nerves. I watched his dad close his eyes and clasp his hands together in the air before his son’s last run. What drama in the mountains.” In a [video](https://twitter.com/i/moments/963061924454912000) showing Kingsbury’s parents at the moment he crossed the finish line, both mom and dad can be seen jumping up and down while loudly cheering. Kingsbury then leapt into his parents’ arms after winning the gold medal, a reaction that prompted an outpouring of support from the internet. > [](https://twitter.com/Devin%5FHeroux/status/963036464429674496) > [](https://twitter.com/Devin%5FHeroux/status/963043770500448256) “I know approximately nothing about [#FreestyleSkiing](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreestyleSkiing?src=hash) or moguls, but I became an expert this morning just from watching the reactions of Mikael Kingsbury’s parents,” [wrote](https://twitter.com/jordynmoussa/status/963062713629990913) Twitter user jordyn. > [](https://twitter.com/jordynmoussa/status/963062713629990913) See some more of the reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/Devin%5FHeroux/status/963051268766773248) > [](https://twitter.com/Devin%5FHeroux/status/963041366627434499) > [](https://twitter.com/jackydoorey/status/963042698071388160) > [](https://twitter.com/mitchellblack/status/963041772065738752) > [](https://twitter.com/SteveTSN/status/963076640879398912) > [](https://twitter.com/nzaccardi/status/963042346677030914) > [](https://twitter.com/alexbenac/status/963041518482272257) > [](https://twitter.com/lostatmidnight/status/963040998527029248) > [](https://twitter.com/rachelhaliwell/status/963041768433360898) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5150209/olympics-2018-mikael-kingsbury-parents/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5150209/olympics-2018-mikael-kingsbury-parents/"},"headline":"The Internet Gave These Parents a Gold Medal for Cheering Their Son On at the Olympics","datePublished":"2018-02-12T21:55:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:33.251Z","description":"Mikaël Kingsbury's victory was a real tearjerker","url":"https://time.com/5150209/olympics-2018-mikael-kingsbury-parents/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","onetime","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb5ed24a573bac9/6989272ee76ad2199c630ff5/mikael-kingsbury.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fb5ed24a573bac9/6989272ee76ad2199c630ff5/mikael-kingsbury.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mikael Kingsbury Wins Gold at 2018 Winter Olympics","caption":"Mikael Kingsbury of Canada takes 1st place during the Freestyle Skiing Men's Moguls Finals at Pheonix Snow Park on February 12, 2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea.","creditText":"Laurent Salino/Agence Zoom/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5150209/olympics-2018-mikael-kingsbury-parents/","name":"The Internet Gave These Parents a Gold Medal for Cheering Their Son On at the Olympics"}}]}] ```