.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the best of the medal table at every summertime Olympics since 1984, when it chose certainly not to join objection at the video games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was officially outlawed, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to succeed 71 awards and also complete fifth. Yet this excellence will certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were invited a lot of them have actually declined to contend. Why?