Olympian Alysha Newman left the Paris Games with a bronze medal – and also a massive boost to her bank account and social media following.
The Canadian pole vaulter, who has operated an OnlyFans page since before the Tokyo Games, went viral last week when she celebrated her new Canadian record vault with an impromptu twerk celebration.
And that moment briefly led to her site on the platform crashing afterwards, she revealed to Mail Sport, with her and her team huddling on a call with OnlyFans software employees to remedy the issue.
Newman also added that she’s received 20,000 new subscribers (and counting) on the platform since the start of the Games.
The website is used by many to post nude content (Newman teases ‘access to my naughtiest content’ in a recent post), but the 30-year-old said she also uses the site to ‘connect with fans’ and give them an inside glimpse into her life as an elite athlete.
Alysha Newman went viral on Wednesday when she twerked after winning a bronze medal
The Olympian has seen a massive boost to her social media following the celebration
‘There’s always a [stigma] around it, and I am well aware of it,’ she said. ‘But I have so much faith in the company and where it’s going.’
Regardless of the opinions that may exist about Newman’s page, the financial results speak volumes.
She is currently charging $7.79 for a subscription (she normally charges $12.99), meaning she’s grossed at least $155,800 from just her new wave of subscribers alone (OnlyFans creators keep 80 percent of revenues).
She also estimated that she’s up 200,000 followers on Instagram since the beginning of the Olympics, while her earnings from OnlyFans have helped cover many of the costs associated with being an elite athlete.
Newman said she pays around $500-$800 per week on chiropractor treatment and massages, has fitted her house with a sauna and hyperbaric chamber, and has blood tests done every three months to keep track of things like iron and hydration levels.
That spending paid off in Paris.
‘The knowledge that I’ve been able to accumulate because of my financial gains with OnlyFans and my other sponsors, has only helped me get this bronze medal more than ever,’ she said.
Newman was also able to pay for her coach (whom she calls her ‘best friend’) to go to Paris, and has begun to pour her money into investments like crypto and property, in which she is setting up AirBnBs to rent out.
Her OnlyFans presence came to be in somewhat ironic fashion.
While thousands of fans packed the Stade de France during her pole vault routine this summer, and thousands now pay for her online content, she says it was the emptiness of the COVID-stricken Tokyo Games which encouraged her to get involved with the site.
She said that she’s received 20,000 new OnlyFans subscribers since the start of the Olympics
Newman, seen in 2022, insists the platform is a great way for her to connect with her fans
Newman set a Canadian pole vault record as she captured bronze at the Paris Games
‘Originally, I started it because I was like, “I need your energy, get me riled up that I’m going to an Olympic Games.”‘
That idea has now snowballed to a point where she’s dreaming of helping to fund a new high performance track and field center in Canada.
The country’s government only gives her a small stipend for her sport, she said, and she’s not the only Olympian that has taken to OnlyFans to help support herself.
But she’s also not blind to the connotation that the site holds in certain corners.
Newman acknowledged that some of her sponsors were initially skeptical of her joining the platform, and conceded that she may not be posting racy content if she had an NBA or NFL-sized salary.
Still, she praised the website for allowing her to be her ‘authentic self’ and has no plans to quit it anytime soon.
She also gained around 200,000 Instagram followers since the start of the Olympics
Newman will hope to capture another medal at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles
‘My mom and my parents have raised pretty thick skin on me,’ she said.
She added later: ‘I think we’ll have a conversation in a couple of years from now and you’ll be like, “Were you not the smartest person ever?”‘
For now, Newman is ‘still on cloud nine’ from winning her first Olympic medal and hopes to capture another in 2028.
But of course, there’s another motivation to qualify for LA as well.
‘It’s just such a great hub for social media,’ she said.
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