.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has finished near the best of the medal table at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it opted certainly not to join protest at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was formally prohibited, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 medals and also finish 5th.
But this excellence is going to certainly not be repeated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were invited much of them have declined to complete. Why?