.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has actually ended up near the top of the award table at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it decided not to join protest at the video games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially outlawed, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 medals as well as complete fifth. Yet this excellence will not be duplicated in Paris. Simply a small number of Russians were invited a lot of them have actually refused to compete. Why?