.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually ended up near the leading of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was officially outlawed, sportsmens contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 medals and complete 5th. But this excellence is going to certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited a lot of them have actually rejected to complete. Why?