.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The nation has finished near the best of the medal desk at every summertime Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted not to take part in protest at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually officially disallowed, athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to succeed 71 awards and also end up fifth. But this results will definitely certainly not be redoed in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were welcomed many of all of them have rejected to complete. Why?