.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has finished near the top of the award table at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted not to participate in demonstration at the games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally disallowed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 medals as well as complete 5th. However this results is going to certainly not be redoed in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually invited much of all of them have declined to contend. Why?