.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has ended up near the best of the medal table at every summer season Olympics given that 1984, when it decided certainly not to take part in objection at the games being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was officially outlawed, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 medals and also end up 5th. But this excellence will definitely certainly not be redoed in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually invited many of them have actually refused to compete. Why?