.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has completed near the best of the award table at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it opted not to participate in protest at the games being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially disallowed, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 medals as well as complete 5th. But this excellence is going to not be redoed in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually welcomed much of them have actually rejected to contend. Why?