The Woman who Exposed Russian Doping

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For the past two years, Russian athlete Yuliya Stepanova, her husband Vitaly and their three year old son, Robert have been on the run. They fear for their lives, after they exposed one of the greatest sporting scandals of all time – the systemic Russian state sponsored doping programme. With very little money or support from any sporting authority, a life of solitude and uncertainty is the prize for the whistleblower who brought down Russian sport.

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0:00.0	100 women.
0:09.0	I'm in an empty stadium on a sunny Tuesday morning and the places deserted. Well not quite. Down there at the
0:16.6	end of the track a figure crouching down ready to sprint.
0:20.8	And she's gone past me in a flash.
0:28.0	She moves with so much speed and so much grace.
0:31.0	And you realize there's a lot of technique in running. What speed was
0:36.0	that? It was 63 seconds. Yeah, that's fast.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:45.0	Yeah.
0:46.0	When they come into the home straight for the final time,
0:49.0	80 meters to run.
0:50.0	The Russian Rusanova on the inside has a major advantage.
0:54.0	Middle distance runner Eulia de Panova, maiden name Rusanova,
0:59.0	once seemed destined for sporting glory.
1:02.0	Rusanova wins Bessie in second place,
1:05.0	the winning time, 1 minute 58.75 seconds.
1:08.0	It is fast.
1:10.0	Today, Yulia is far from her once adoring fans.
1:15.0	This is a vast empty stadium and she's the only person in it.
1:21.0	The Russian athlete and her husband and son are isolated thousands of miles from home in a country whose language she's having to learn from scratch.
1:31.0	Are we ready? Let's read. Cyrus has worked here for three months.
1:37.0	Do you think you'll ever be able to go back?
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