.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has completed near the leading of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in demonstration at the video games being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was formally disallowed, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 awards and also complete 5th. Yet this results will certainly certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually invited a number of them have declined to compete. Why?