Olympian Darya Klishina offered huge amount to become high-class escort

Russian long jumping champion Darya Klishina has revealed that an American man offered her a substantial sum of money to become an escort.

Olympian Darya Klishina, 29, made the revelation in Russian media after winning a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in London.

The 29-year-old shared her workout routine on Instagram: 

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"I was offered to be an escort," she said in an interview with the Russian sports broadcaster sports.ru. "The message came from an unknown netizen from the US, in a direct message."

"He just wrote a direct message to me on Instagram. I'm not somebody who swears at people and just answered him back with 'sorry but I am not interested in this offer'," she added.

She said that the unknown man was willing to pay a "very big sum".

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"The sum was big, very big. It was 200,000 USD (164,000 GBP) per month. I then thought: 'Do I really look like a woman who would agree to something like this?'" she said.

Klishina - who won a silver medal at the 2017 World Championships - went on to describe how a revealing photoshoot earlier in her career left her feeling uncomfortable.

"I'm happy with my body, I have nothing to be ashamed of, but that photo session was a little bit too much for me," she said, adding that she was "uncomfortable" when the photographer asked her to undress.

She said it was a sign that "something was going wrong".

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The 29-year-old was the only Russian athlete allowed to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said that she could participate as a neutral athlete.

Her Russian sportspeople were banned from competing in international events after a World Anti-Doping Agency report uncovered systematic state-sponsored doping in 2015.

Klishina was accused of being a traitor for competing in the games without her fellow Russians, some of whom argued that she should have refused to participate in an act of solidarity.