.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has actually ended up near the best of the award table at every summer months Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided not to participate in protest at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was officially banned, athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 medals and also complete fifth. Yet this success will definitely not be actually repeated in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were welcomed most of all of them have refused to contend. Why?