Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis met at a track meet 4 years ago. Now, the power couple is going for gold in Tokyo.
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It's rare to qualify for the Olympic Games — and it's even rarer to compete alongside your significant other. But at the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics, track and field power couple Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis will both be representing Team USA.
Woodhall, 22, is already a two-time Paralympic medalist, winning a silver and a bronze medal in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 in the 200-meter and 400-meter sprints, respectively. Davis, also 22, will compete in the Olympics for the first time in the long jump. For the couple, who fittingly met at a track meet in Idaho four years ago, trials were a whirlwind.Noumea — France's president held a flurry of meetings with local representatives in the restive Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Thursday, urging calm after deadly rioting, and vowing thousands of military reinforcements will stay in place to quell what he called an "unprecedented insurrection."
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