.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has actually finished near the leading of the medal table at every summertime Olympics because 1984, when it chose certainly not to take part in protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was formally banned, sportsmens competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to gain 71 medals as well as complete fifth. However this success will certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually invited a lot of all of them have refused to contend. Why?