:quality(85):upscale()/2025/10/16/863/n/1922729/07f2d03268f14b01091477.88053210_.jpg "Tara Davis-Woodhall Gives You Permission to Crash Out: Full Send")
Tara Davis-Woodhall is no stranger to the occasional crash out. While the Olympic long jumper makes incredible feats (and 23-foot jumps) look easy, it's taken years for her to fully embrace her own body. Now 26 years old, she still remembers wearing a sweatshirt every day because the boys at school would make fun of her muscles. "I feel like it took so long for me to overcome that," she tells Popsugar. It wasn't until she realized her own strength that she started to build up her confidence.
"Once I started winning more, it made more sense that I had to be this strong," Davis-Woodhall explains. This revelation was fast-tracked after she saw one of her idols, Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic, at the 2023 World Championships. "She just looked like a goddess with her big, strong muscles," Davis-Woodhall says. "I was like, 'Oh . . . I have to look very strong to jump very far.'"
While she still has moments of self-doubt, now her strength gives her confidence instead of stripping it away. "I'm still learning. I'm still adjusting. I'm still finding the beauty within myself to love how strong I look," Davis-Woodhall says. But for the most part, "Whenever I'm strong, I absolutely love my body," she says. "I'm so obsessed."
"Whenever I'm strong, I absolutely love my body."David Woodhall's complicated relationship with her body is not exactly unheard of - especially for young girls and women athletes. According to Dove, 48 percent of girls who drop out of sports were told they had "the wrong body type." Another study from Women in Sport found that 61 percent of girls who quit sports felt judged while doing said sport.
In an effort to address these statistics, Dove created the Body Confident Sport program to help young girls stay in sports and feel more confident in their bodies. "[The Body Confident Sport program] gives tips and tricks and advice to women and young girls on how to stay confident within themselves," says Davis-Woodhall, one of Dove's Body Confident partners. "There's no one else like you in this world, and that's what the Sport program is reminding you."
When asked what advice she'd give to her own younger self, Davis-Woodhall responds with some tough love: "I'd slap her in the face and [tell her to] get it together," she jokes. On a more serious note, Davis-Woodhall stays in a good headspace with the help of her strong support system - which includes her Paralympian husband, Hunter Woodhall. "My husband, of course, is the person who allows me to just be me," she says. "When I come home, he's not telling me, 'You need to chill, you need to do this, you need to behave this way, you need to do it like this.' He's actually just letting me be myself."
When she's feeling the pressure, Davis-Woodhall tries her best to "over-communicate" with her family. But sometimes, all you can do is let yourself feel your emotions to the fullest. "I was crashing out right before ATHLOS," Davis-Woodhall confesses. "You know when your mind gets so overwhelmed with so many things happening?"
She might've looked cool, calm, and collected in the moment, but it's not always easy. For Davis-Woodhall, letting it out is part of restoring her confidence (and for the record, she still left ATHLOS with a crown). "After that crash out, I feel so good," she says. Maybe you need a good crash out sometimes, Popsugar suggests. "Exactly. It's OK to crash out," Davis-Woodhall responds - just as long as you remember to lock in afterwards. "Keep kicking. Keep going. You're in the right spot."
Related: Ilona Maher Is Tired of Acting Like Larger Bodies Are Only For Olympians Chandler Plante (she/her) is a social producer and staff writer for the Health & Fitness team at Popsugar. She has over five years of industry experience, previously working as an editorial assistant for People magazine, a social media manager for Millie magazine, and a contributor for Bustle Digital Group. She has a degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University and is based in Los Angeles.Hence then, the article about tara davis woodhall gives you permission to crash out full send was published today ( ) and is available on popsugar ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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