.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has completed near the top of the award desk at every summer months Olympics since 1984, when it decided certainly not to join objection at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually officially disallowed, professional athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to succeed 71 medals and also finish 5th. Yet this results is going to not be actually redoed in Paris. Simply a small number of Russians were actually invited a lot of them have declined to contend. Why?