.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually completed near the top of the medal table at every summer season Olympics since 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in demonstration at the activities being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was officially disallowed, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 medals and complete fifth. But this results will definitely not be actually repeated in Paris. Only a few of Russians were actually invited a number of all of them have declined to complete. Why?