.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually ended up near the best of the award table at every summer months Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in protest at the video games being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually formally outlawed, professional athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to win 71 awards as well as end up 5th. But this results is going to certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were invited a number of them have actually refused to compete. Why?