.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has actually completed near the top of the award desk at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it decided not to take part in objection at the games being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was officially banned, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 medals and also finish 5th. However this results is going to certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Simply a small number of Russians were actually welcomed most of all of them have actually declined to complete. Why?