.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has actually completed near the top of the award table at every summertime Olympics since 1984, when it decided not to take part in protest at the activities being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally prohibited, athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to succeed 71 awards and also end up fifth. However this excellence will certainly certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were actually invited most of them have rejected to compete. Why?