.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the top of the award table at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it decided certainly not to join demonstration at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally banned, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 awards and end up 5th. Yet this results will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were invited most of them have actually refused to contend. Why?