.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has completed near the leading of the medal desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to participate in demonstration at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was formally outlawed, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 medals as well as complete 5th. But this effectiveness is going to certainly not be redoed in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually welcomed most of all of them have actually declined to complete. Why?