.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the top of the award table at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose certainly not to take part in demonstration at the activities being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially outlawed, professional athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to win 71 awards and also finish 5th. But this success will certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were actually invited many of them have actually refused to complete. Why?