.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has ended up near the top of the medal table at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the video games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially outlawed, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 medals as well as finish 5th. Yet this success will certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Only a few of Russians were welcomed much of them have actually declined to complete. Why?