.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic goliath. The country has completed near the top of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics given that 1984, when it opted not to participate in protest at the video games being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was officially prohibited, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to succeed 71 awards as well as end up 5th.
But this excellence will certainly certainly not be repeated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were welcomed much of all of them have refused to compete. Why?