.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has ended up near the leading of the award desk at every summer months Olympics because 1984, when it decided not to join protest at the activities being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially prohibited, sportsmens completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 medals as well as end up fifth. But this excellence is going to certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a few of Russians were invited a lot of them have actually declined to contend. Why?