.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually completed near the top of the award desk at every summer season Olympics since 1984, when it chose not to join objection at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was formally outlawed, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 medals as well as complete 5th. Yet this results will definitely not be repeated in Paris. Just a few of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of them have declined to complete. Why?