It’s hard not to be swept up in Davis-Woodhall’s approach to the long jump, especially when she finds reason to laugh even in the heat of fierce competition.
“My entire memo is have fun,” she tells CNN Sport.
Long jump is one track and field discipline which governing body World Athletics seems interested in developing, such as by introducing a take-off zone in the place of a fixed board.
“I think it might be a little silly,” she says, “just because you kind of take away from the principle of long jump.
That’s even more true for an athlete like Davis-Woodhall, currently jumping further and with more confidence than ever before.
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