.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has actually ended up near the leading of the award desk at every summertime Olympics because 1984, when it chose certainly not to participate in objection at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was officially outlawed, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 awards and complete 5th. Yet this success will certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Only a few of Russians were invited a lot of them have refused to complete. Why?