.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has completed near the best of the award desk at every summer months Olympics because 1984, when it opted not to participate in protest at the activities being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually officially disallowed, sportsmens completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to gain 71 medals as well as finish 5th. However this success will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were welcomed a lot of them have actually rejected to contend. Why?