.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually ended up near the leading of the award table at every summertime Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted not to participate in objection at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian group was officially outlawed, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to win 71 medals as well as end up fifth. But this effectiveness will certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were invited a number of all of them have actually refused to contend. Why?