.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has completed near the best of the award desk at every summer months Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to take part in protest at the games being held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian staff was formally banned, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to gain 71 awards and finish 5th. But this results will definitely certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were welcomed much of them have refused to contend. Why?