.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has finished near the best of the award table at every summertime Olympics given that 1984, when it opted certainly not to join objection at the games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was officially disallowed, sportsmens competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 awards as well as complete 5th. However this results is going to not be actually repeated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually welcomed much of them have refused to complete. Why?