Please Help Support Russian Whistleblowers Vitaly Stepanov And Yulia Stepanova

So we're lobbying to get a convicted doper into the olympics?

The independent commission review of IAAF called for the IAAF to provide relocation assistance and job retraining assistance.

Dick Pound said that his support for Seb Coe remaining was contingent on IAAF following all of the recommendations in the report.

Seb Coe said he was planning to meet w/ the Stepanov's to express his gratitude and has repeatedly called on other whistleblowers to come forward.

Has IAAF pprovided any funding?

Has Seb Coe met w/ the Stepanov's?

Has DIck Pound made any criticism of IAAF not following the recommendation regarding the Stepanovs?

Letsrun, please follow-up on these questions. I'm happy you are supporting the crowd-funding for these people, but they deserve more.

Lobbying for recognition and reward for whistleblowing

Not a bad thing

Ain't life easy. Join the cheating cheaters and then call them out once you're washed up and expect to get rewarded.

the criminal justice system operates in this fashion,

reward for whistleblowers

runoutoftkme wrote:

Ain't life easy. Join the cheating cheaters and then call them out once you're washed up and expect to get rewarded.

We blow whistles all day long here. Give me some money.

They should move to the UK, we pay doper David Millar to do TV commentary.

http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/video-david-millar-profile-the-dark-years

The comments so far on this thread are disappointing. The Stepanovs took on great risks, to both their careers and their safety, to expose the Russian doping program. If you care about doping, please show a little more respect and empathy. No one is excusing her from doping. This is about doing right by them so that future whistleblowers will not be afraid to speak up.

I am all for doing right by the Stepanov's and support anyone donating to their fund.

I am disappointed that the IAAF, the people who would seem to be most in their debt, would be totally abdicating their responsibility.

I wish Letsrun, or other journalists, would continually put this question to Lord Coe and other IAAF officials.

Of course the IOC does not want whisteblowers... they could expose more corruption within the IOC.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I wasn't referring to your post, Mr. Obvious. You bring up a valid and important point.

I support them. They have done the sport a great service in uncovering what the authorities would never have done. At great sacrifice they have given the sport an opportunity to clean itself up.

If Stepanova is not allowed to run then what message does that send out? Come forward but we're not going to help you, in fact we're going to try and bury your story. We should be encouraging people to come forward to clean this sport up.

At the moment they come across as the whistleblowers the IAAF and IOC didn't want to come forward. Shocking.

Putin routinely murders journalists, dissidents, and anyone critical of his regime. Former RUSADA officials Nikita Kamaev and Vyacheslav Sinev coincidentally died within days of each other this February, supposedly of natural causes.

Bottom line: The Stepanovas are risking their lives for a clean sport.

I heard seb coe likes to have his whistle blowed occasionally

So....People should donate money to people who did the wrong thing....then ratted out others who did the wrong thing? Yeah, ok.

Contributing to people like this is almost as stupid as putting money in a tip jar on a store counter.

get ugly wrote:

The comments so far on this thread are disappointing. The Stepanovs took on great risks, to both their careers and their safety, to expose the Russian doping program. If you care about doping, please show a little more respect and empathy. No one is excusing her from doping. This is about doing right by them so that future whistleblowers will not be afraid to speak up.

Problem is that It is hard to ignore geopolitics here. There seems to be a strong anti-Russia sentiment on this forum that isn't present with regard to other countries. Is that just due to the doping or something more? Its not long ago people were agitating to boycott the 2018 World Cup over Ukraine. There are many in the West licking their lips at the prospect of no Russian flags in sight at Rio.

Tim "Pissflaps" Graham wrote:

So....People should donate money to people who did the wrong thing....then ratted out others who did the wrong thing? Yeah, ok.

Or to phrase it slightly differently, help out people that were responsible for outing the systematic doping story of our time and risked their lives to do so, and in supporting them, encouraging other whistle blowers to come forward by showing that they will be supported.

Instead, the IAAF & IOC have discouraged whistle blowers from coming forward, which of course, is exactly what they want.

Tim "Pissflaps" Graham wrote:

Contributing to people like this is almost as stupid as putting money in a tip jar on a store counter.

Nope.

If they moved to the UK, there would probably be another Litvinenko type assassination. I can see why they moved to the US.