.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually completed near the top of the award desk at every summertime Olympics given that 1984, when it opted not to join protest at the games being actually held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was formally outlawed, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 awards and also end up 5th. Yet this effectiveness will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a small number of Russians were actually invited much of them have refused to complete. Why?