.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has finished near the top of the medal desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it decided not to participate in protest at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally banned, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 medals and also complete fifth. However this results will not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of them have declined to complete. Why?