.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the top of the medal desk at every summertime Olympics given that 1984, when it opted certainly not to take part in demonstration at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially outlawed, sportsmens competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 awards and also finish 5th. But this results will not be redoed in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually welcomed a number of them have rejected to complete. Why?