.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has completed near the leading of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics because 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in objection at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was formally disallowed, athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 awards and complete 5th. However this success will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of them have actually rejected to compete. Why?