Olympic pole vaulter Alysha Newman who started OnlyFans slapped with 20 month ban from sport
Olympic medallist Alysha Newman has been banned from sport for 20 months for missing three doping tests.
The 31-year-old won bronze for Canada at the 2024 Paris Olympics and last competed at the Diamond League in May 2025.
You might remember her celebrating her third placed finish with a NSFW celebration.
In a statement, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said the pole vaulter broke anti-doping rules after three whereabouts failures within 12 months: filing failures on 27 February and 23 August 2025, plus a missed test and filing failure on 17 August 2025.
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The AIU found no evidence she tried to evade testing, but said her fault remained high given her experience and long-term inclusion in testing pools.
It also accepted some mitigation linked to her winding down her involvement in the sport, without specific mention of her starting OnlyFans.
This, the AIU said 'is a sufficiently unique/exceptional factor that may be considered in assessing her level of fault in the matter'.
Newman went viral at the 2024 Paris Olympics for pretending to be injured before breaking into a twerk.
The stunt drove her subscribers on the 18+ site through the roof, as she first joined the subscription-based platform before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
"People ask me [how many new subscribers I've got] and I wish I could share it," she told LADbible at the time.
"It's not that I can't share it, it's just that it keeps on going up. So every time I talk to someone and I re-log on there's another 5,000 people. I can't give an official number it's definitely times by that."
Newman added: "The last time I checked it was up by 30,000. So It just keeps on growing every day. I would hate to say something that's not true.
"People want you to represent in this one box but when we stick in that one box we can't make more movement. So I think a lot of athletes realise how individual the sports are and how hard it is to get to this level.
"And we want to be unique. Some of us want to be different."
Following the announcement of the 20 month ban, Newman took to social media to share a quote from Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus.
"You can bind up my leg, but not even Zeus has the power to break my freedom of choice," she penned.
Anish Vij