.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The nation has completed near the best of the award desk at every summer months Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided not to take part in objection at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally outlawed, athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to succeed 71 awards and also finish fifth.
Yet this results will definitely not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually welcomed many of them have declined to complete. Why?