The coach of Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova was hit with a 10-year ban for doping-related offences. In a statement, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS said, Vladimir Mokhnev, the coach of 800-metre runner Stepanova, was found to have violated International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF rules relating to possession, trafficking and administration of banned substances. <br/><br/>Stepanova, along with husband Vitaly Stepanov, helped lift the lid on Russia's alleged state-sponsored doping programme but was excluded from the Rio Olympics and lives in hiding in the United States. <br/> <br/>Middle-distance runner Anastasiya Bazdyreva also received a two-year suspension, backdated to August 2015, for use or attempted use of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method. <br/><br/>Bazdyreva was one of five Russian athletes who the World<br/>Anti-Doping Agency recommended be banned for life after they were the subject of doping allegations in a documentary aired<br/>by German TV channel ARD last year. <br/><br/>The cases involving Mokhnev and Bazdyreva were both referred to the CAS by athletics' governing body in February with the top sports court stepping in to take over from Russia's suspended athletics federation, the ARAF.