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Tara Davis-Woodhall is no stranger to the occasional crash out . While the Olympic long jumper makes incredible feats (and 23-foot jumps) look easy, it's taken years for her to fully embrace her own body. Now 26 years old, she still remembers wearing a sweatshirt every day because the boys at school would make fun of her muscles. "I feel like it took so long for me to overcome that," she tells Popsugar. It wasn't until she realized her own strength that she started to build up her confidence.

"Once I started winning more, it made more sense that I had to be this strong," Davis-Woodhall explains. This revelation was fast-tracked after she saw one of her idols, Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic, at the 2023 World Championships. "She ju

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