.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has actually finished near the leading of the medal desk at every summer Olympics because 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the activities being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally outlawed, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to win 71 medals and finish fifth. However this success will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Merely a small number of Russians were welcomed most of all of them have refused to compete. Why?