.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the top of the award desk at every summer season Olympics given that 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in demonstration at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially banned, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 awards as well as end up fifth. Yet this results will certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually welcomed a number of them have refused to compete. Why?