<img 60="" alternate="Vitaly Stepanova and his wife Yuliya are interviewed" assetid="87479042" assettype="image" class="imgAsset middle" credit="CBS News/60 MINUTES" cutline="Vitaly Stepanova and his wife Yuliya are interviewed by Armen Keteyian of " minutes="" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/2016/07/23/USATODAY/USATODAY/636048817239442729-cxx-stepanov-a-14.jpg" style="line-height: 1.6;" />Several current and former athletes are lending their voices to a crowdfunding campaign to support whistleblowers Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, who exposed widespread doping in Russian athletics.
The project launched this week and has raised more than $21,000, or roughly 25 percent of its goal.
The Stepanovs left Russia in late 2014 after providing evidence of doping in track and field to German broadcaster ARD, and they now live in an undisclosed location in the United States.