.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has ended up near the best of the medal desk at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it chose certainly not to take part in protest at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially disallowed, sportsmens contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 medals as well as finish fifth. However this success is going to not be duplicated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually welcomed most of them have actually refused to complete. Why?