Days After Being Stripped Off Her National Title, US Track Star Breaks Silence With an Announcement

24-year-old American track and field athlete Tara Davis has been in the eye of the storm of late. Things were on the upside for her after she had won the gold medal in the long jump event at the 2023 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. However, a recent report of her testing positive for cannabis use meant that she was stripped off her title. Amidst this massive controversy, the athletics star put out a post on social media breaking her silence.

Tara Davis has been found positive for cannabis after a test and has served a one-month suspension. However, more detrimental is the fact that she lost her title and has been disqualified from all competitive results. Yet, with her recent post, there are promising signs of a strong comeback.

Tara Davis will look to continue with her stellar form amidst the controversy

Tara Davis recently took to her Instagram and wrote, “Season opener this weekend”. Attached alongside was a clip, where Davis was doing what she does best. Sprinting all the way before she took a long leap in the air and completed a jump. It was a subtle way of breaking her silence amidst the constant pressure and negativity surrounding her suspension.

Davis first broke the long jump national record in February 2017 at the Dumanis Sports Group in Frisco, Texas. She followed her stellar performance up until 2021 when she jumped a whopping 7.04 meters to earn the 2nd spot at the trials for Tokyo Olympics. Although at the finals, she didn’t end up on the podium having come 6th, Davis’s potential was known to the whole world.

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Her performance only bettered from there and just this February, she won the long jump competition at the track and field championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico by jumping 6.99 meters and creating the national record. However, the excessive THC found in her urine put a temporary halt to all her activities.

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Davis’s urine sample showed that the concentration was way above the Decision Limit of 180 ng/ml (nanograms per millimeter). Initially, Davis was only put on a one-month suspension since her use of cannabis wasn’t competition-related and she had previously completed a substance abuse program. But this didn’t stop her from being deprived of her titles. However, the decision to strip her titles wasn’t met with positivity by the general public, not least of which was Serena Williams‘s husband Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian wrote on his Instagram story, “This is some BS”, indicating the common expletive.

Davis isn’t new to controversies. Just last year, her tweet about Queen Elizabeth II’s death sparked a massive uproar. But she moved on from it. Davis will similarly look to put all of these behind her and focus on what’s ahead. She is already preparing for this season of competitions and will look to make a mark in the upcoming Olympics in Paris in 2024.

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