.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic giant. The nation has actually finished near the leading of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it opted certainly not to take part in objection at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially prohibited, athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 awards as well as end up fifth. Yet this effectiveness will definitely not be redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited most of them have refused to complete. Why?