.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually ended up near the leading of the award desk at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it chose not to join objection at the games being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was officially prohibited, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 awards and also finish 5th. Yet this success will certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a small number of Russians were invited a number of them have refused to complete. Why?