.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic giant. The country has ended up near the top of the medal table at every summer season Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join objection at the video games being kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally banned, sportsmens contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 medals and also finish fifth. Yet this excellence will not be duplicated in Paris. Only a few of Russians were welcomed most of them have declined to complete. Why?