.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has actually finished near the top of the medal table at every summer months Olympics since 1984, when it chose certainly not to participate in protest at the activities being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was formally outlawed, sportsmens completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to win 71 awards as well as end up fifth. Yet this results will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually welcomed many of all of them have actually refused to contend. Why?