.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has actually finished near the leading of the award desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to participate in objection at the games being actually held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally disallowed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to win 71 medals as well as complete 5th. Yet this excellence will not be redoed in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually invited most of all of them have refused to complete. Why?