.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has completed near the leading of the award table at every summertime Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it chose not to participate in demonstration at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally banned, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to win 71 medals as well as finish 5th.
Yet this results is going to certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually invited many of them have actually declined to complete. Why?