.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has finished near the leading of the award desk at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it opted certainly not to join objection at the activities being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was formally outlawed, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to win 71 awards as well as finish fifth. But this results will definitely certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were welcomed most of them have declined to complete. Why?