.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has completed near the leading of the award desk at every summertime Olympics since 1984, when it decided not to participate in objection at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially banned, professional athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to succeed 71 medals and finish 5th. But this effectiveness is going to not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a small number of Russians were invited many of them have refused to contend. Why?