Russian whistleblower fears for her life

The Russian runner who helped expose a system of state-backed doping in her country says she fears for her life and has been forced to move after hackers tried to find her location.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Saturday Yulia Stepanova’s online doping management account had been illegally accessed. The doping scandal she lifted the lid on has rocked sport and cost over 100 Russians their place at Rio.

Stepanova has been in hiding in the US with her husband Vitaly, a former Russian anti-doping official, after giving evidence the Russian government for years facilitated widespread cheating across nearly all Olympic sports.