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The observe and discipline stars, already a budding web sensation, set off a brand new wave of admiration after a video of the couple celebrating Davis-Woodhall’s gold win in girls’s lengthy bounce went viral throughout the Paris Games.
The second captured Davis-Woodhall making one other bounce after her after profitable 23-foot leap, this time into the arms of her husband, Paralympic champion Hunter Woodhall. Videos of the nice and cozy embrace have garnered hundreds of thousands of views throughout social media.
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“Baby, you are the Olympic champion!” Woodhall was caught saying on digicam.
“I have never been on social media that a lot, so I do not understand how viral it is gone!” Davis-Woodhall informed People throughout a latest interview. “Everyone’s been telling me the entire world’s been seeing it, [but] that is simply Hunter and I.”
Woodhall, a double-amputee sprinter initially from Syracuse, Utah, can have his personal probability to vie for gold throughout the Paralympics, which kicked off in Paris on Aug. 28 and run via Sept. 8. According to a spokesperson, Woodhall will compete within the males’s 100m on Sept. 1 and once more on Sept. 2 if he qualifies. He’s additionally representing Team USA within the males’s 400m and 4x100m Universal Relay on Sept. 6.
Woodhall departed Paris on Aug. 11 to complete his preparations, and arrived again in City of Light on Aug. 26, in accordance the spokesperson. His spouse, who was in Rome for the Rome Diamond League, was set to rejoin Woodhall on Saturday, the spokesperson stated.
After being born with a situation referred to as fibular hemimelia, Woodhall had an amputation to take away his decrease legs. Doctors informed his mother and father that he would by no means be capable of stroll, a prognosis he was decided to show incorrect.
“They stated I’d by no means stroll, so I realized to run as an alternative,” Woodhall’s Instagram bio says.
The Paralympic athlete began his observe and discipline profession within the fifth grade and have become the first double amputee athlete to earn a D-1 scholarship, competing for the University of Arkansas.
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Davis-Woodhall has been enmeshed within the observe and discipline world since age 4, due to her household. The youngest of 5, she attended her older siblings’ observe meets frequently as a toddler and bought fascinated about lengthy bounce after seeing her sister participate within the occasion, based on NBC. Davis-Woodhall’s dad, Ty Davis, was her coach all over highschool, the place she set information for lengthy bounce and 100m hurdles at each the state and nationwide stage. Davis-Woodhall now has a observe invitational at her highschool named after her, based on the spokesperson.
The California native attended the University of Georgia earlier than transferring to the University of Texas the place she competed in lengthy bounce and hurdles. She brings a cowboy hat to her meets to honor her Texas ties.
Davis-Woodhall made her Olympic debut in 2021 on the Tokyo Games after recovering from a string of accidents together with two damaged vertebrae, a damaged ankle and a damaged hip.
“I sat in COVID, I discovered who I used to be and simply tuned in to my physique and what I wanted to do for the upcoming season,” she informed CBS News in 2021. “And fortunately, my season performed out rather well.”
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Outside of lengthy bounce, she’s competed in 60m and 100m hurdles, triple bounce, and girls’s 200m for USA Track & Field.
The couple’s romance started in 2017, after they met at a highschool observe meet in Pocatello, Idaho. They recount their first encounter in a YouTube video.
According to their telling, Woodhall traveled from Utah, and Woodhall-Davis from California for an occasion referred to as the Simplot Games. It was there the place the 2, each 18-years-old on the time, serendipitously caught every others’ eyes on the observe turf. Woodhall was watching his Davis-Woodhall run the hurdle race when he texted his pal Tucker saying, “This is the lady I’m going to marry.” The subsequent day, after the Woodhall ran and gained the 400m race, Woodhall-Davis greeted him afterwards. “I simply wanted a hug,” Woodhall recalled her saying. “That’s actually how we met,” he stated.
The two tied the knot in Texas in 2022 and now reside in Arkansas. They run a well-liked YouTube channel referred to as “Tara and Hunter” that paperwork their athletic ventures and day-to-day life as a married couple. It presently has 863,000 subscribers.
“Being in one another’s sport I feel that is a special manner of sharing our love,” stated Davis-Woodhall in an interview shared by CBS Mornings. “Not solely can we love one another as people, we love one another as athletes.”
