.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually completed near the leading of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics because 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in protest at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was officially prohibited, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 awards and end up 5th. However this success will not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a small number of Russians were actually invited a lot of all of them have actually declined to compete. Why?