Coe asks more athletes to be whistleblowers on doping
AMSTERDAM — IAAF President Sebastian Coe called on athletes Thursday to follow the example of Russia’s Yulia Stepanova and to blow the whistle on doping.
“It’s a golden opportunity, that is not necessarily going to present itself again, for our sport to grab this moment. This is a historic moment,” Coe said of the momentum that Stepanova helped create.
“They’re there, at the side of the track, they’re in the training groups. They know the coaches not doing it with integrity. They can help us and that’s really important.”
More than a year ago, Stepanova helped to blow the Russian doping scandal wide open as she and her husband, a former Russian anti-doping official, gathered a trove of evidence on how doping has worked in Russia.