.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the leading of the award table at every summer season Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose certainly not to participate in objection at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially outlawed, sportsmens contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to gain 71 medals as well as finish 5th. However this success is going to certainly not be repeated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of them have actually rejected to compete. Why?