.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has completed near the best of the award desk at every summertime Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to join protest at the games being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally outlawed, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to win 71 medals and finish fifth. However this effectiveness will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Just a few of Russians were actually invited a lot of all of them have actually refused to complete. Why?