Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Alysha Newman banned after missed drug tests

Team Canada is nether the microscope again.

Canadian Olympic bronze medalist rod vaulter Alysha Newman has been banned from her athletics for 20 months aft missed cause tests, though way and tract investigators accepted she had ended her vocation arsenic a rod vaulter. Newman won bronze for Canada astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics.

She much precocious competed astatine a brace of Diamond League meetings successful May 2025 successful Qatar and Morocco.

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Alysha Newman of Team Canada celebrates her bronze medal and poses with the Canadian emblem during the women's rod vault last astatine the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine Stade de France connected Aug. 7, 2024. (Daniela Porcelli/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images)

Newman is the latest Team Canada fig to incite contention aft incidents during and astir the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Two controversies surrounding Canadian wintertime sports teams successful aboriginal 2026 impact allegations of regularisation violations successful curling and contention manipulation successful skeleton. Canadian curlers were accused of "double-touching" stones astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics, portion the skeleton squad was recovered to person manipulated a Lake Placid contention to support Olympic qualification points, causing large uproar.

The Athletics Integrity Unit said Newman was unavailable for an unannounced doping power successful February past twelvemonth and doubly much successful August. Three alleged "whereabouts" failures successful a 12-month play tin beryllium prosecuted arsenic an anti-doping rules violation.

At the 3rd incident, the AIU said successful its published verdict the jock told a illustration postulation authoritative "she had to permission instantly to enactment successful the filming of a tv crippled show."

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The planetary anti-doping strategy requires athletes to specify a one-hour play each time erstwhile they volition beryllium disposable to springiness a illustration for testing.

Newman’s suspension expires successful August 2027 and was little than the modular 2 years for whereabouts cases due to the fact that the AIU accepted she decided to extremity her career.

This, the AIU said, "is a sufficiently unique/exceptional origin that whitethorn beryllium considered successful assessing her level of responsibility successful the matter."

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Flag bearers Charles Hamelin and Marie-Philip Poulin transportation Team Canada's emblem during the opening ceremonial of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics astatine Beijing National Stadium connected Feb. 4, 2022. (Elsa/Getty Images)

Newman besides competed successful 2 satellite championships finals, was a golden and bronze medalist astatine the Commonwealth Games and took bronze astatine a Pan American Games.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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