Tara Davis-Woodhall was nervous watching her husband Hunter Woodhall take a seat inside a speeding McLaren. The couple visited the team's garage during the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Davis-Woodhall and Hunter competed at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games respectively and both left Paris with maiden gold medals to their name. While the former won the women's long jump title with a jump of 7.10m, the latter took the men's T62 400m in 46.36s.
The two are yet to resume training for the 2025 season and were recently spotted enjoying their offseason at the Las Vegas GP. The couple witnessed Max Verstappen being crowned the world champion for the fourth consecutive year before visiting the garage of F1 team McLaren.
Hunter later witnessed the thrill of high speed inside a McLaren car with the team's reserve driver Pato O’Ward and was overjoyed. He said following a ride:
"It was next level, bro. When you took those turns, it felt crazy," he told O’Ward.
However, wife Davis-Woodhall was nervous on the sidelines as she watched the duo zoom past her.
"Sitting here alone, waiting for Hunter to come back, I'm so nervous right now," Tara Davis-Woodhall said.
The couple recently moved to Kansas from Arkansas after Davis-Woodhall was named the assistant coach at Kansas State University. Their mutual coach Travis Geopfert also became the Director of Track and Field/Cross Country of the program.
"The most amazing sports moment ever" - Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall on their Paris 2024 campaign
Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall are among the few couples in the world to win the gold medal at the same edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was the most memorable moment in their life, second only to their marriage in 2022, they told Olympics.com.
"It was the most amazing sports moment ever. It's at the top of my highlight reel," Hunter said.
The Paralympic champion explained that training together and witnessing each other's struggles motivated them to pursue the dream of winning gold together in Paris.
"Just because we've done this whole entire process together, not just this year, but the past six years, going through so many trials and tribulations and injuries and bad seasons. And then finally, both of us just deciding, 'Hey, we want to do something really special in Paris', and the lead-up to that and then all of that hard work and sacrifice led to those two incredible moments that neither of us will ever forget," he added.
The couple had met and fell in love at a track meet in 2017. They were in a long-distance relationship for several years and competed together at the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games before tying the knot in October 2022.