Tara Davis-Woodhall & Hunter Woodhall Reveal Their 2024 Olympics Goals

Hunter Woodhall was calved without fibulae, a information called fibular hemimelia, and was 11 months aged erstwhile helium underwent a treble amputation—but the carnal situation did not dilatory him down.

The Georgia autochthonal met Tara Davis-Woodhall astatine a precocious schoolhouse way conscionable successful Idaho 2017. And, arsenic helium recalled successful a YouTube video, "I was like, 'Damn, that girl's fine. I'm gonna wed that girl.'"

They weren't unneurotic from that infinitesimal on, Tara being from California, but chemistry and pursuing each other's rising careers connected societal media did the trick. The brace got engaged aft the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games successful 2021 and wed successful October 2022 astatine a Texas vineyard. But portion they some competed successful Tokyo, they couldn't cheer each different connected successful idiosyncratic owed to COVID-19 restrictions. So you tin ideate however excited they are for Paris.

"This is what we've been moving on. And this is what we've been waiting for," Tara told E! News successful May. "And it's going to beryllium a peculiar infinitesimal for sure."

After less-than-golden finishes successful Tokyo, Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield are sprinting for golden successful Paris.

In the meantime, the way and tract stars are surviving their champion lives connected TikTok, Noah making a woody with his woman of astir 2 years successful a caller video: "We spell to the Olympics, I triumph each race, you triumph each race, we travel backmost arsenic the astir winningest couple."

She added, "I spot that baby… I’m picking up what you’re putting determination and I won’t driblet it. I got the vision… I'm acceptable to marque it happen. We are going to beryllium the astir winningest couple."

We're not definite if arguments are settled with swords astatine home, but Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt person had each other's backmost for much than a decade.

"She pushes maine successful ways to assistance maine retired of my comfortableness zone, her strength inspires me," Gerek, who met Lee successful 2012 and joined her successful September 2019, told TeamUSA.com. "And I effort to assistance her find the equilibrium of not overdoing things. It's astir reaching your potential, and I deliberation we bring a batch to each different successful antithetic ways."

When his woman qualified for Paris, Gerek wrote connected Instagram, "Words can't picture however atrocious she wanted this, however hard she worked, oregon however arrogant of her I am," portion Lee wrote erstwhile helium punched his ticket, "So proud!! My antheral fenced beautifully." 

In summation to being champion athletes, they're are besides aboriginal doctors. They pressed intermission connected aesculapian schoolhouse aft their 2nd twelvemonth astatine University of Kentucky to absorption connected grooming for Tokyo, but program to resume their studies successful 2025.

Adelaide autochthonal Sam Willoughby, 32, was Alise Post's instrumentality from afar earlier helium managed to conscionable her done MySpace. "Eventually," helium quipped to USA Today Sports successful 2020, "I busted my mode into her apical friends list."

Alise invited Sam to sojourn her successful California and the rising BMX racing stars realized they wanted to thrust tandem forever. He popped the question successful December 2015 aft 8 years together.

When a devastating grooming clang successful 2016, 9 months aft helium proposed, ended Sam's vocation and rendered him a quadriplegic, Alise was by his broadside passim his recovery. "You're not marrying a vegetable," helium recalled telling her arsenic a mode of letting her cognize she could pedal connected without him. To which she replied, "You're not a rootlike and the hellhole I'm not marrying you. You're stuck with me.'"

While helium inactive uses a wheelchair, Sam—now his wife's coach—has defied expectations, managing to locomotion down the aisle wearing braces astatine their 2019 wedding.

"After the accident, I knew I wanted to beryllium his stone from the connection go," Alise said. "Now, he’s my stone erstwhile I’m racing. It’s benignant of travel afloat circle."

Ashley Kovacs, a four-time All-American successful changeable enactment astatine University of Kentucky, has coached her hubby Joe Kovacs since 2019 and successful February was named 2024 Paris Olympics Women's Throw Coach.

Married since Nov. 18, 2023, the Kovacs person produced acold much than a heap of shiny hardware: They welcomed twins Kannon and Kaari in October 2022.

"Everything is astir them each the time, truthful we bid erstwhile they nap," Ashley told WCMH, explaining wherefore they person a changeable enactment ringing successful the gait of their Ohio home. "We wanted to beryllium capable to person abstraction wherever we could enactment a ringing astatine our location truthful erstwhile they were down for a nap, that we could bash what we needed to do."

Added Joe, "Never person been happier successful my beingness with my woman to the kids. It's the champion beingness I could've ever wished for."

After qualifying for Tokyo successful 2021, tennis subordinate Alex De Minaur had to driblet retired aft investigating affirmative for COVID, truthful helium and Katie Boulter—who played mixed doubles astatine Wimbledon unneurotic successful 2023—will some beryllium making their Olympic debuts successful Paris.

Alex joked during a post-match interrogation successful January aft helium was shown a saccharine remark Katie near connected his Instagram, "I’m really amazed she said thing bully astir me. Normally each clip she goes connected societal media to reply to my posts oregon whatever, it's ever having a excavation astatine me. So it's bully each present and again to get a compliment."

Katie whitethorn person a cheeky consciousness of humor—"(calm down not engaged...just the lone digit that ringing fits)," she wrote connected a March post marking 4 years with Alex—but their emotion is game, set, match.

In fact, she knew implicit an impromptu cupful of java aft they ran into each different astatine 6 a.m. portion staying astatine the aforesaid edifice that helium was the one.

"Growing up, I was ever super-close to my grandpa," she told The Age successful June. "I ever said to myself that if I tin find idiosyncratic who has fractional his heart, I'll beryllium the luckiest pistillate successful the world. I've recovered that idiosyncratic successful Alex."

Lea Schüller, who plays guardant for Bayern Munich, volition beryllium making her Olympic debut with the German women's shot team. And not lone tin two-time Olympic sailor Lara Vadlau amusement her the ropes (and necktie them into nautical knots), Paris volition springiness them the accidental to beryllium successful the aforesaid metropolis for 3 full weeks.

"I find it truly adjuvant due to the fact that some of america recognize what you person to bash for your sport," Lara, who's a doc successful her spare time, said successful an interrogation for her partner's footoball club, "that you're distant a batch and don't spot each different that often."

Added Lea, "We often lone spot each different for 3 to 5 days astatine a time. It's a spot similar a long-distance relationship. Not due to the fact that we unrecorded successful antithetic places—we unrecorded unneurotic successful Munich—it's conscionable 1 of america is ever away."

"I americium excited arsenic if I americium the 1 competing," fencer Rossella Fiamingo told Olympics.com of watching her fiancé successful the pool—or, if helium competes successful the 10K unfastened h2o aquatics successful Paris—the River Seine.

And Gregorio Paltrinieri is each successful connected Rossella's sport, too, which helium called "beautiful to watch." After adding different golden and metallic to his tally astatine the 2023 World Swimming Championships successful Fukuoka, Japan, Gregorio made a astonishment halt successful Milan to drawback the squad épée last astatine the World Fencing Championships.

"Rossella didn't know, she was shocked," helium told Olympics.com afterward. "She asked maine past nighttime [about being there] and I told her I was exhausted."

Well, helium whitethorn beryllium a trickster, but he's besides her No. 1 supporter.

Knowing Rossella was disappointed the Italian squad lone won silver, Gregorio added, "There are races successful which you tin bash amended and others worse, but it's portion of the journey. It happens to maine too, but I ne'er suffer faith. This is what I volition archer her, not to suffer faith."

Dominik Cerny had Paris successful caput erstwhile helium proposed to Hana Burzalova astatine the decorativeness enactment of the women's 35km contention astatine the 2023 World Athletics Championships successful Budapest past August.

"We person been unneurotic for astir 1 Olympic cycle, astir 4 years," helium told Olympics.com afterward, "so I deliberation it was the close time." 

They weren't speed-walking to the altar, helium added, but "maybe we volition determine lone 2 days successful advance. We similar to bash random things. At the Paris Olympics possibly we volition commencement arsenic the Cerny family—maybe successful the caller event, the contention locomotion relay."

Way to support the satellite connected its toes portion keeping 1 ft successful interaction with the crushed astatine each times.

Tennis champs Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils, joined since 2021, person some done this full Olympics happening before, but it's the archetypal clip they've done it arsenic parents, welcoming girl Skai successful October 2022.

"She's a large parent first," Gael told reporters astatine the Miami Open successful March 2023 aft helium and his woman had made the 2nd round. "That's first. People privation to enactment tennis archetypal but I deliberation she’s a large parent first. This is the astir important for maine arsenic her hubby due to the fact that of people we are a tennis mates but beingness is beyond our sport."

Elina has besides stressed that she's much than a tennis player, telling TIME in April, "I consciousness similar I person the opportunities to assistance and besides play for Ukrainian people, with their unbreakable spirit. Each clip I measurement connected the court, each clip that I play a tennis match, I correspond the Ukrainian radical and their strength."