.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has ended up near the best of the award table at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join objection at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was formally banned, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 awards and also complete fifth. Yet this results will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were actually welcomed many of them have declined to compete. Why?