.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the best of the award table at every summer season Olympics since 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian staff was officially prohibited, athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 medals and complete fifth.
But this effectiveness will not be actually repeated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually invited much of them have actually refused to complete. Why?