.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually completed near the top of the award table at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it opted certainly not to join protest at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian group was formally prohibited, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 awards as well as complete 5th. But this success will certainly certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Only a few of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of all of them have rejected to complete. Why?