.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the top of the medal table at every summer season Olympics given that 1984, when it chose certainly not to take part in demonstration at the activities being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially prohibited, professional athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 medals as well as finish fifth. However this results is going to not be actually duplicated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of all of them have refused to contend. Why?