.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually completed near the top of the medal desk at every summer months Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to join objection at the activities being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was officially banned, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to win 71 medals as well as finish fifth. But this effectiveness will not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were invited most of them have actually refused to complete. Why?