.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has actually ended up near the top of the award desk at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it decided not to take part in objection at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually officially prohibited, sportsmens completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to win 71 medals and end up 5th. Yet this results is going to not be actually repeated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of all of them have rejected to complete. Why?