Stepanova, along with husband Vitaly, helped expose massive doping problems in Russia that led to the country’s athletics team being banned from international competition.
The 30-year-old, who has been living with her family in an undisclosed location in the United States, will run as a neutral competitor in an 800 metres race, her speciality, according to a start list on the Boston Indoor Grand Prix website.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) last summer cleared the former convicted drug cheat’s return to competition as a neutral athlete.
Stepanova, whose life has been threatened because of her revelations to world anti-doping officials, returned to competition last July at the European championships but was injured in a first-round race.
(Reporting by Gene Cherry in Salvo, North Carolina; Editing by Frank Pingue)
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