Athletics - European championships - Women's 800m qualifiaction - Amsterdam - 6/7/16 Yulia Stepanova of Russia competes. REUTERS/Michael Kooren/File Photo
(Reuters) - Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova will face an international field indoors for the first time in two years when she runs in Boston on Saturday, the 800 metres specialist told Reuters on Wednesday.
"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.
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