.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has ended up near the leading of the medal desk at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it decided not to take part in objection at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally prohibited, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 medals and end up 5th. But this success will certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of all of them have rejected to compete. Why?