.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has ended up near the best of the medal table at every summer months Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to participate in protest at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally outlawed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 awards as well as finish 5th. However this results will not be repeated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were invited much of all of them have actually rejected to contend. Why?