.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has finished near the best of the award desk at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it decided not to participate in objection at the video games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was officially outlawed, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to gain 71 awards and finish fifth. However this excellence will definitely certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a small number of Russians were invited a lot of them have declined to complete. Why?