She went on to become an advocate of the organ donor register and in 2013 won the gold medal for the 4 × 100 metres relay race at the World Transplant Games.
[2] As an infant, she was diagnosed with a cardiomyopathy and for six weeks prior to her heart transplant, was severely ill in the Freeman Hospital's intensive care unit.
[1] Ten days after the transplant operation, the media were allowed admission to the intensive care unit where Davidson-Olley was a patient.
[2] In 2013, at the World Transplant Games in Durban, South Africa, Davidson-Olley ran the 4 × 100 metres relay and won the gold medal.
[1] To celebrate, she and the staff from the Freeman Hospital, members of families of people who have had transplants, the president of the World Transplant Games Federation and her surgeon, took the "Walk for Life", starting at Baltic Square, stopping at the Copthorne Hotel and then making their way across Newcastle's Millennium Bridge.