.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has ended up near the leading of the award table at every summer season Olympics since 1984, when it decided not to take part in objection at the activities being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally outlawed, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 medals and also finish 5th. However this effectiveness will definitely certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited a number of all of them have refused to contend. Why?