.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has ended up near the best of the award table at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided not to join protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was formally outlawed, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 awards as well as finish fifth.
However this results will definitely not be repeated in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were invited a number of them have refused to contend. Why?