Alysha Newman said Tuesday afternoon that she has landed an audition with Victoria’s Secret, adding a fashion-world twist to a career that has already swung from an Olympic podium to a doping suspension. The 31-year-old Canadian pole vaulter, who won bronze at the Paris Olympics and went viral in 2024 for her twerking celebration, shared part of the invitation to an in-person casting for a chance to walk in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026.
Newman did not say what the audition means for her track future, and that question hangs over the post as sharply as the glamour of it. Her suspension for missed drug tests, tied to whereabouts failures, will keep her out until August 2027 after she was unavailable for unannounced testing three times in a 12-month period.
The Athletics Integrity Unit reduced the standard two-year sanction to 20 months after accepting that Newman had decided to end her career, although she has not said she is retiring. That leaves her sporting future currently unknown, even as she continues to build a public profile beyond the track through brand work, Instagram content and OnlyFans posts. After the Olympics, she also took her top off for Maxim, part of a media run that showed how far her image had moved beyond pole vaulting.
The shift was already visible in March, when Newman shared black-and-white headshots from Los Angeles and wrote, “We didn’t come to LA to play… New headshots.” Tuesday’s audition news turns that message into something more concrete. For now, the 2026 fashion show looks like a real target, while her return to competition remains on hold until 2027 unless something changes before the ban expires.
