.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually ended up near the top of the award desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted not to take part in objection at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially banned, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to win 71 awards and end up fifth. However this success is going to not be actually redoed in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually welcomed a number of all of them have actually rejected to contend. Why?