
Russia may have been banned from the Winter Olympics but they are still going to have one of the largest groups of athletes at the games.
The Russia’s Olympic Committee announced on Thursday that it will send 169 athletes to South Korea to compete in the games.
Only three nations had at least 169 athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the United States, Canada, and Russia, which as the host nation in 2014 had 232 athletes competing.
Russia is sending the large contingency despite being banned from the Winter Olympics for manipulating the doping tests at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Russian athletes who still wanted to compete in the Olympics had to be cleared by a vetting process. The vetting included new evidence that could show if the athletes had previously attempted to "hide and modify" biological data that would have suggested steroid use.