“Teacher salaries.” Tara Davis-Woodhall and her Paralympian husband have had this one problem in the sport. There’s no money in here for a long jumper and a Paralympian, they say. According to them, they have been getting ‘teacher salaries’ for being track and field athletes. Well, imagine an Olympic and a Paralympic gold medalist voicing such confessions. Naturally, a question arises: so where do they think the grass is greener?
Well, Tara Davis-Woodhall just spilled the beans on that. She and Hunter have previously pointed out things in the sport that no one cared to even think of. They were the ones who realized that Noah Lyles earned $100,000 on social media via a single 50m dash against YouTuber IshowSpeed, which was way more than what he made while winning both the Indoor and the Outdoor World Championships and even the Olympic Games. But there are sports where things seem better. At least financially. And per Tara Davis-Woodhall, those are…
In a YouTube video uploaded by Firefly Recovery on April 10, both Tara and Hunter sit on the hot seat to answer 24 questions. That’s when the Olympic Long Jump Champion gets questioned, “If you had to compete in a sport outside of track and field, what would it be?” Her answer was, “If I had to compete in a sport outside of track and field, I would say gymnastics.” Seconds later, she switched it to, “No, I would say tennis because they have a lot of money. I want to be Coco Gauf…”
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