Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman’s twerking skills gained her a ton of new followers, subscriptions, and more money, but what did the moment do to her family?
Several athletes became overnight sensations at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but nobody captured the hearts of millions quite like Newman.
The Canadian pole vaulter brought the first women’s pole vault medal to the Great White North while shattering a Canadian record in the process.
After Alysha Newman had the fans at Stade de France going crazy, she ran off and pretended to be hurt before she broke out into a twerk.
Newman has clarified that the twerking was not for the bronze but for the record she had broken.
“A lot of people think I broke out in the dance because of the bronze medal, but again, I didn’t know I had bronze, Angelica [Moser] from Switzerland still had another attempt, she could have easily taken my spot,” Newman explained. “If you know me for these many years, I’ve always celebrated after a Canadian record. So I had just jumped with the 4.85 [meter] jump, I jumped a Canadian record, and in the past, at every single competition I’ve ever jumped, I’ve backflipped, I’ve danced, I’ve done any sort of thing that comes out naturally.”
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Alysha Newman, who has an Instagram following that has swelled to over 743,000 followers, recently revealed in an interview that her mother had a shocking reaction to her twerking skills.
Newman’s mother mocked her twerking skills by stating she has seen other women twerk way better than her.
“I’ve seen girls twerk and they twerk way better than you Alysha,” the Olympic medalist told TMZ.
Alysha Newman made it clear that her mom is supportive of everything she does.
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Olympic Pole Vaulter Alysha Newman’s Spicy Subscription Site Crashed After Twerking
Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman took home the bronze medal at the Olympics in Paris, and then her twerking made headlines, which caused her to make a ton of money.
Her OnlyFans account blew up so insanely that her team called her up to let her know the site crashed with so many people signing up.
“It’s quite insane,” Newman told the Daily Mail. “My whole team actually had to get on a phone call because a lot of the website was crashing because of how many people actually came on … A lot of the OnlyFans people were jumping on the call with me.”
Newman claims she gained around 20,000 new subscribers, with Daily Mail estimating that she’s made more than $150,000 in new subscriptions since her viral Olympic moment.
