.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has actually ended up near the best of the medal desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to take part in protest at the activities being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was formally disallowed, athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 medals and complete 5th. Yet this results will definitely not be redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were invited many of them have declined to complete. Why?