.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has actually ended up near the leading of the medal table at every summer season Olympics given that 1984, when it chose certainly not to take part in demonstration at the games being held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally prohibited, professional athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 awards and complete 5th. Yet this results will certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited many of them have actually rejected to complete. Why?