.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has actually finished near the leading of the medal table at every summertime Olympics considering that 1984, when it decided not to join protest at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually formally disallowed, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to gain 71 awards as well as finish fifth.
Yet this results will not be actually duplicated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited a lot of them have rejected to compete. Why?