.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the best of the medal table at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it opted not to join protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was officially outlawed, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to gain 71 awards and finish 5th. Yet this results is going to certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were actually welcomed many of them have actually declined to compete. Why?