.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has completed near the top of the award table at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted not to join protest at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally prohibited, athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 medals and also complete fifth. However this success will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were actually welcomed most of all of them have actually rejected to compete. Why?