.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has finished near the leading of the award desk at every summertime Olympics given that 1984, when it decided certainly not to join objection at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally prohibited, sportsmens competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 awards and end up fifth.
However this success is going to not be repeated in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were invited much of them have actually rejected to complete. Why?