.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has ended up near the top of the award desk at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in protest at the video games being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally outlawed, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 awards as well as finish fifth. However this success will certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited much of them have actually rejected to contend. Why?