.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has actually completed near the leading of the medal table at every summer months Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in demonstration at the activities being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally disallowed, professional athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to succeed 71 medals as well as complete fifth. But this success is going to certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were invited a lot of all of them have declined to compete. Why?