.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has completed near the best of the award table at every summertime Olympics since 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in objection at the games being actually held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially prohibited, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 awards and also end up fifth. However this effectiveness is going to certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were actually invited a lot of all of them have declined to contend. Why?