July 5 : Olympic and world champion Tara Davis-Woodhall spoke about her mental health struggles, describing her week as “really difficult” going into the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday, where she won the long jump. <\/p>\n
Davis-Woodhall successfully defended her title at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, fending off Italy’s Larissa Iapichino by 1 cm, after jumping 7.13 m to Iapichino’s 7.12.<\/p>\n
“Just to get here was a struggle this week,” Davis-Woodhall said after her victory.<\/p>\n
“We’re dealing with some mental health problems. Just, you know, I have depression. I have anxiety. This week was really difficult.”<\/p>\n
The two-time Olympian has previously spoken openly about her mental health struggles, including periods when she considered quitting the sport.<\/p>\n
Davis-Woodhall won the world championship in the long jump final in Tokyo last year and the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t fathom just being here for some reason. I couldn’t get myself to, like, envision it,” she said.<\/p>\n
“So the fact that I showed up today, the fact that I even gave myself a chance is really big for me, and then to come out with a win, it just puts into perspective that I just have to give myself a chance every single time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 5 : Olympic and world champion Tara Davis-Woodhall spoke about her mental health struggles, describing her week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-511087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}