.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the top of the award desk at every summertime Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to participate in protest at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially banned, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 awards as well as finish fifth. However this success is going to certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were invited many of all of them have actually refused to compete. Why?