.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the top of the medal table at every summertime Olympics because 1984, when it decided not to take part in objection at the video games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was officially disallowed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 awards and also end up fifth. Yet this excellence will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually welcomed many of all of them have actually declined to compete. Why?