.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the best of the award desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it decided not to join demonstration at the video games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally disallowed, athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to succeed 71 awards as well as finish 5th. Yet this results will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were invited most of all of them have actually declined to compete. Why?