How did you feel about the 2024 Olympics? I’m super excited to enjoy the celebration of what the human body and spirit can do in the Paralympics starting on August 28th.
It was mostly a wonderful, positive event, 19 days in Paris with some not so positive moments: Ana Bărbosu Gets Olympic Bronze Medal After Jordan Chiles Is Stripped of Honor, and a Gender Eligibility Dispute Involving Two Women Boxers.
Here are my favorite US women’s’ Olympic moments:
- USA Kristen Faulkner winning the womens’ road race! Watch at 5:43. This was the first time in 40 years that the US won. She was a Harvard rower, began local bike racing in NYC, then quit her banking career to race full time!
- Katie Ledecky triumphed in the 800m and 1500m freestyle events, demonstrating her dominance in distance swimming.
- Simone Biles After a brief hiatus, Biles returned to Olympic gymnastics and secured gold in the all-around competition. She also performed exceptionally well on various apparatuses…pregnant!
- Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone Shatters World Record in 400m hurdles!
- Gabby Thomas Harvard athlete, winning 3 gold medals in Track and Field
- Australian race walker, Jemima Montag, was hailed for her inspiring interview
I’m looking forward to seeing all of the athletes in the Paralympics with enormous admiration. They’ve overcome physical and emotional adversity, pain, and worked to achieve levels of performance that most of us cannot imagine.
This story wins it for me. Tara Davis-Woodhall, who won gold in the women’s long jump at the Paris Olympics, is married to Hunter Woodhall, a double amputee who will be competing in multiple track races when the Paralympics kick off in Paris on Aug. 28.
This is the love story of two Olympians, long jump gold winner Tara Davis-Woodhall, and her husband, Paralympian, Hunter Woodhall.
Hunter proposed to Tara in September of 2021, shortly after the Tokyo Olympic Games concluded. The couple was married in October 2022. Now Paralympic sprinter, Hunter, and long jumper Tara, in their first Olympics as a married couple in Paris – supporting each other every step of the way.
Let me know in comments the Olympic events you enjoyed, and which athletes inspire you, in the Olympics and in the Paralympics.
Onward~
x
Polli
