The track and field golden couple also hope their impact will “change” their sport.
“We won two things, we won a gold medal, but we also won the viewership that we have been longing for in track and field. That’s something we want to do, is to change the sport of track and field and have eyes to our sport,” she said while attending the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity hosted by Sport Beach.
Tara Davis-Woodhall on the power of manifestation
The renewed motivation and mindset turned into a manifestation which powered her to the Olympic title.
“I’m a big believer in manifestation, so I don’t know why I was seeing 8:08 for as long as I did,” Davis-Woodhall, who became the fourth American woman to win Olympic gold in the long jump, recalled in our recent chat.
“And then, to come to the realisation that I was competing on August 8th, which is 8.08, and then I jumped at 8:08pm on my first attempt, and so it was a moment for me, and I think it was my moment to win. It was a moment to be in the right place at the right time.”
There have been other constants that have kept the 2023 World silver medallist energized, like her husband and training partner Hunter, whom she has known since 2017.
“On the track circuit it’s hard to stay relevant and to stay afloat, but I mean to put it in perspective, my husband’s standing over there, and we’re finally on the circuit again, and we’re Olympic gold medallist and Paralympic gold medallist,” said the 2015 World U18 champion, casting an admiring glance towards Hunter who was with her at her first Diamond League meeting in Stockholm.
“He’s my rock, he’s my left-hand man, he is everything I could ever dream of in a partner. As a training partner and as my best friend, we get to hang out every single day, and it’s not like where people are like, ‘Oh you’re with your husband every day? You have to work with your husband?’ I’m like, ‘No, I get to be with my husband every single day’.