Overview
- The 20-month suspension, issued Friday, runs through August 2027 according to the Athletics Integrity Unit.
- The AIU cited missed unannounced tests in February and twice in August 2025, which count as three whereabouts failures under rules that require athletes to name a daily one-hour testing window.
- The ban is shorter than the typical two years because the AIU accepted that she had ended her career and called that a unique factor that lowered her fault.
- At the third visit from testers, officials wrote that Newman told a sample collector she had to leave for the filming of a television game show.
- Newman last competed at Diamond League meets in Qatar and Morocco in May 2025, and the AIU had already provisionally suspended her earlier this year.