Greg Rutherford kept punching the air with his right hand: when he won, when he stood on the podium, when he walked away after the anthem and when he celebrated for the photographers. He was a champion again and he was lapping up every moment of his success.
But it was not all about the past or the present. His mind quickly turned to the future and next stop...Zurich.
As Great Britain's Olympic long jump champion Rutherford added the Commonwealth Games title to his list of honours in Glasgow on Wednesday night, his thoughts quickly turned to making it a hat-trick of major golds.
'I am super happy and in a couple of weeks time I am going to go to the Europeans to try to do it again. I found myself smiling as I was enjoying myself,' he said.
Rutherford had triumphed for Team England with a jump of 8.20m in a competition where South African Zarck Visser whipped the fans into a clapping frenzy for his last round effort but could not improve on the 8.12m which brought silver with teammate Rushwahl Samaai winning bronze with 8.08m.
But for Rutherford, who leads the European Athletics rankings with his British record of 8.51m from April, his triumph proved London was just the start for him.
Speaking to the BBC, he added: 'I think a lot of people had written me off thinking I was a one-hit wonder. But I am here trying to prove I can still do it and I am going to do it many more times.
'It is one of those tough things, ultimately people are always going to write you off. The Olympics came to a shock to some people but I think I was the only one who was not shocked with it. I had been working so hard, and everything came together. And this year I have worked beyond hard.'
At the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, which start on August 12, Rutherford will face among others Russia's world champion Aleksandr Menkov, having failed to make the final in Moscow last year, jumping a best of 7.87m in qualifying, on his way back from a hamstring injury.
Rutherford said: 'It's never an easy road and after what happened last year with injury I wasn't sure if I could carry on jumping. Now I've won another title which is what it is all about for me.'
His success led the way for Europe on Wednesday night as Cyprus won their first athletics medal of these Games with Kyriakos Ioannou finishing second in the high jump with 2.28m as Canada’s Derek Drouin won with 2.31m and teammate Michael Mason took bronze on countback with 2.25m.
Being Jessica seems to be a good thing if you are a heptathlete.
Not Jessica Ennis, Britain's Olympic champion, who has just become a mum, but England's Jessica Taylor who won bronze in the event with a personal best of 5826 points behind a Canadian one-two of Brianne Theisen-Eaton, the world silver medallist, who triumphed with 6597 and, yes Jessica Zelinka, who was second with 6270.