Meet The Only Russian Track And Field Team Member Competing In The Olympics This Year

Darya Klishina is a Russian athlete and model and the only member of Russia's track and field team permitted to compete in this year's games.

Klishina competes in the Long Jump.

The other 68 members of Russia's Track and Field team have been banned from the games this year for doping after a lot of controversy.

This controversy arose after Yulia Stepanova, a runner on the team, alerted Olympics authorities to the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs among the team in 2014. While it is possible and even likely that not all team members used performance enhancing drugs, the incredibly high rate of athletes who failed the drug test resulted in the entire team's disqualification.

Klishina, however, has been training separately in Miami and will be allowed to compete as an independent because she was far enough removed from the scandal and was able to prove that her system was totally clean. She's unfortunately taken a lot of heat for competing without her teammates, but she has also received plenty of support from others.