.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has finished near the leading of the award desk at every summertime Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it chose not to take part in objection at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially disallowed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 medals as well as finish 5th. However this excellence will certainly certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were welcomed most of all of them have declined to compete. Why?