Stepanova returns to running
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.