.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the best of the medal desk at every summertime Olympics given that 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian group was officially prohibited, professional athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 medals and finish 5th. But this excellence is going to not be actually redoed in Paris. Only a few of Russians were welcomed most of all of them have declined to compete. Why?