.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has completed near the best of the award desk at every summertime Olympics because 1984, when it decided not to take part in protest at the activities being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian staff was officially prohibited, athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 medals and also finish fifth. However this success is going to not be actually redoed in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually invited a lot of them have declined to contend. Why?