.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has ended up near the top of the medal desk at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it decided certainly not to join protest at the activities being actually kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally outlawed, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to win 71 awards and finish 5th. Yet this results will definitely certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were actually invited much of all of them have rejected to compete. Why?