.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The nation has ended up near the top of the award table at every summertime Olympics because 1984, when it chose not to participate in demonstration at the games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually formally disallowed, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 awards and end up 5th. But this results is going to not be actually duplicated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were invited most of them have actually declined to contend. Why?