.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic goliath. The country has ended up near the leading of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics because 1984, when it decided certainly not to take part in protest at the video games being kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian crew was formally banned, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to gain 71 awards and end up fifth. Yet this excellence will certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually welcomed most of them have rejected to contend. Why?