.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has actually finished near the leading of the medal table at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was officially disallowed, athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to gain 71 medals and complete fifth. However this effectiveness is going to certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Simply a few of Russians were invited much of all of them have refused to contend. Why?