.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the best of the medal table at every summer months Olympics since 1984, when it chose certainly not to participate in protest at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially prohibited, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to win 71 awards and also finish 5th. However this effectiveness will certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a few of Russians were actually invited a number of all of them have declined to complete. Why?