.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has completed near the leading of the award desk at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it opted certainly not to join demonstration at the games being held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially prohibited, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 awards and also end up fifth. Yet this results will definitely not be repeated in Paris. Only a few of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of all of them have actually refused to complete. Why?