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LONDON -- The Russian husband and wife team who felt betrayed by the IOC after blowing the whistle on state-sponsored doping in their homeland are now being offered financial and other assistance by the Olympic body.The International Olympic Committee said Monday that it was providing career opportunities to 800-meter runner Yulia Stepanova and her husband, Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official.Stepanova is being given financial support, while her husband will work as a consultant for the IOC on doping matters, the committee said in a statement to The Associated Press.The couple have been living at an undisclosed location in the United States since providing information to German broadcaster ARD and others that helped expose systematic cheating in Russia.Their testimony played a central role in the IAAFs decision to suspend Russias track and field federation from global competition and exclude all but one member of its team from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.The IOC faced harsh criticism after rejecting calls to ban Russia entirely from the games and turning down Stepanovas application to compete in Rio as an independent athlete.The couple met with IOC President Thomas Bach in September to discuss the committees offer of assistance in their careers, the IOC said in an email.After the couple reached out to the IOC, Yuliya Stepanova is being given financial and other assistance so that she can continue her sports career and potentially join a national Olympic committee, the IOC said.Its unclear which national Olympic body Stepanova could represent, although the U.S. would be a possibility since the couple have been living there.Her husband, meanwhile, will be providing a consultancy service to the IOC on all aspects of doping control and the protection of clean athletes, the statement said.Stepanova was part of the Russian doping system for years and served a two-year drug ban imposed by the IAAF. After she and her husband turned whistleblowers, the IAAF recommended that she be eligible to compete as a neutral athlete.Stepanova did run as an independent athlete at the European Championships in July, but finished last in her 80-meter heat as she struggled with a foot injury.The IOC rejected her bid to run at the Olympics, citing her past doping case and saying she did not satisfy the ethical requirements to compete at the games.At the time, Vitaly Stepanov labeled the IOCs offer to bring them to the Olympics to watch the games as VIP guests a bribe.Stepanova also criticized the IOC, saying, They never tried to understand our situation. They simply say whatever is going to serve them.The couple said recently they feared for their safety and had switched residences after hackers breached a World Anti-Doping Agency database that records Stepanovas whereabouts.Bach said in Rio that the IOC was not responsible for dangers to which Mrs. Stepanova may be exposed. 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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- Woody Austin made four birdies in a six-hole stretch on the back nine and finished with a 4-under 68 to take the first-round lead in the Senior British Open.Austin, 52, rebounded from bogeys on Nos. 9 and 10 with birdies on 11, 12, 14 and 16. He has struggled after winning three times in four events this year on the PGA Tour Champions.It seems I forgot how to play after that, Austin said. Its been really bad since. Its been unfortunately a long stretch of really ugliness.Mark OMeara was a stroke back along with Carlos Franco, Esteban Toledo, Joe Durant, Tom Byrum, Scott McCarron and Peter Fowler. Franco, from Paraguay, qualified Monday.The wind was 10-15 mph at Carnoustie Golf Links with a mix of sun and clouds and a high in the 60s.I think the rain yesterday softened the course a little bit, OMeara said. We were pretty fortunate. The wind laid down just a little bit in the middle of our round out there, so it was a little bit more playable. But Carnoustie is a very demanding golf course. You have to drive the ball well.dddddddddddd You have to be accurate with your iron shots, and then youve got to putt well.Austin won the last of his four PGA Tour titles in the 2013 Sanderson Farms Championship.Im not into grinding, Austin said. Im not into beating a bunch of balls anymore. I did that for my 40 years. Im done.So I go home, I play with my kids, I play with my family. I own a golf course. I help run the golf course. I try to do the things I need to do there. Youll find me sometimes weeding, jumping on a mower and mowing. I hit balls usually maybe Saturday and Sunday the week before I go back out. Thats it. Thats my preparation. The only time I work on is when I get to the golf course.Bernhard Langer, the winner in 2010 at Carnoustie, had a 71.Defending champion Marco Dawson opened with as 72. He won last year at Sunningdale.Michael Bradley had a 74 in his senior debut. He won four times on the PGA Tour. ' ' '