.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has actually completed near the top of the award desk at every summer months Olympics since 1984, when it chose not to participate in protest at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was formally disallowed, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to win 71 awards as well as complete fifth.
Yet this success will not be duplicated in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually invited much of them have actually rejected to complete. Why?