.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has actually completed near the best of the award desk at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was formally disallowed, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to gain 71 medals and also end up 5th.
However this success will certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were actually invited a lot of all of them have refused to compete. Why?