Tara Davis-Woodhall, the Olympic and world champion in long jump, is a doubt to compete at the inaugural World Ultimate Championships next week, and the London ATHLOS meet later this month, after being involved in a car crash.The 27-year-old, whose 7.20m personal best is the second-longest in the event this decade, explained to reporters on a video call that the crash occurred on route to practice. It left her with “a severe concussion” but no life-threatening or life-altering injuries.“Both of our cars are totalled,” she said, adding that another driver hit her at around 20mph after making an incorrect turn. “It’s very scary. I’m lucky and blessed to be alive. I don’t know where I am right now,” she continued.Davis-Woodhall was speaking to media ahead of the first edition of the World Ultimate championships next month, a best-of-the-best event to close out the 2026 season. She qualified for this with her victories at last September’s World Championships in Tokyo, and by winning gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics — where she became the fourth American woman to earn that long jump crown, after Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1988), Brittney Reese (2012) and Tianna Bartoletta (2016).“I haven’t trained at all due to the crash,” she explained, acknowledging the “unfortunate timing” given that the women’s long jump final at World Ultimates is next Friday (September 11th). ATHLOS, a women’s-only track league formed in 2024, is hosting their London meet exactly one week later, with Davis-Woodhall a poster girl for the league.“I’m physically okay. Mentally, it’s just something’s going on in there. I’ve seen my doctors and my physios. Everyone is trying to get me back (onto the track),” she said.“I’m at the peak of my training right now. I’m as fast as I’ve ever been. I’m a strong as I have ever been, so this decision is very difficult for me,” Davis-Woodhall added, yet to confirm her participation in any events for the rest of the year.Only three times in 2026 has she competed in long jump. She has run the 100m hurdles this year for the first time since 2021, lowering her personal best from 12.75s to 12.47s (+1.5m/s) in Los Angeles in June — that moved her from 82nd to 23rd on the American women’s all-time list.Her last outing was in late July at the U.S. national championships, hosted in New York. Davis-Woodhall, a two-time world champion, jumped 6.90m for third place behind Monae’ Nichols (6.92m, second) and Alyssa Jones (6.96m, first). It meant that the University of Texas graduate rescinded a national title that she had won in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and it brought to an end her three-year and 17-meet unbeaten run, which stretched back to the 2023 world championships in Budapest where she took silver.