.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has actually completed near the top of the medal desk at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it opted not to join demonstration at the games being actually held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was officially disallowed, athletes contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to gain 71 awards and also end up 5th.
However this excellence will certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were invited many of all of them have actually rejected to compete. Why?