Yuliya STEPANOVA

30, Russia ( will compete at Rio as a neutral) Sport: Athletics

Highest honour: All key results forfeited. Ban: 2013, two years.

Drug used: Biological passport abnormalities.

2016 events: 800m. Synopsis: She has not won anything of late — and is in doubt for the Games with a foot tendon injury — but has generated more headlines than any athlete in the world this year after the revelations she and husband Vitaly blew the whistle on Russia’s systemic doping programme. Currently living under protection in the US. If she fronts at Rio, it will be under a neutral flag.