.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has completed near the top of the medal desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted certainly not to take part in demonstration at the video games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was officially banned, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to gain 71 awards as well as finish 5th. Yet this success will certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were invited much of them have actually refused to complete. Why?