.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The country has actually ended up near the top of the award desk at every summer Olympics because 1984, when it decided certainly not to take part in protest at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian team was formally prohibited, sportsmens completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 medals as well as end up fifth.
But this effectiveness is going to certainly not be repeated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually invited many of them have declined to compete. Why?