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Team Canada is nether nan microscope again.
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist rod vaulter Alysha Newman has been banned from her athletics for 20 months aft missed supplier tests, though way and section investigators accepted she had ended her profession arsenic a rod vaulter. Newman won bronze for Canada astatine nan 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 badge and poses pinch nan Canadian emblem during nan women's rod vault last astatine nan Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine Stade de France connected Aug. 7, 2024. (Daniela Porcelli/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images)
Newman is nan latest Team Canada fig to incite contention aft incidents during and astir nan 2026 Winter Olympics.
Two controversies surrounding Canadian wintertime sports teams successful early 2026 impact allegations of norm violations successful curling and title manipulation successful skeleton. Canadian curlers were accused of "double-touching" stones astatine nan Milan Cortina Olympics, while nan skeleton squad was recovered to person manipulated a Lake Placid title to protect Olympic qualification points, causing awesome 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 nan 3rd incident, nan AIU said successful its published verdict nan jock told a sample postulation charismatic "she had to time off instantly to participate successful nan filming of a tv crippled show."
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The world anti-doping strategy requires athletes to specify a one-hour play each time erstwhile they will beryllium disposable to springiness a sample for testing.
Newman’s suspension expires successful August 2027 and was little than nan standard 2 years for whereabouts cases because nan AIU accepted she decided to extremity her career.
This, nan AIU said, "is a sufficiently unique/exceptional facet that whitethorn beryllium considered successful assessing her level of responsibility successful nan matter."
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Flag bearers Charles Hamelin and Marie-Philip Poulin transportation Team Canada's emblem during nan opening ceremonial of nan Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics astatine Beijing National Stadium connected Feb. 4, 2022. (Elsa/Getty Images)
Newman besides competed successful 2 world championships finals, was a golden and bronze medalist astatine nan Commonwealth Games and took bronze astatine a Pan American Games.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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