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Stepanova returns to running

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BOSTON: Russian whistleblo­wer Yulia Stepanova will face an internatio­nal field indoors for the first time in two years when she runs in Boston tomorrow, the 800m specialist revealed earlier this week. “I hope not to be last with a big space between me and the previous runner,” Stepanova, who will compete as a neutral athlete, said in a telephone interview translated by her husband Vitaly Stepanov. The couple helped expose massive doping problems in Russia that led to the country’s track and field team being banned from internatio­nal competitio­n.

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