.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has actually completed near the best of the award desk at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided not to participate in protest at the activities being held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was formally prohibited, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 medals as well as finish 5th. Yet this excellence will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Only a few of Russians were actually welcomed many of all of them have declined to compete. Why?