.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has ended up near the top of the award table at every summer months Olympics since 1984, when it opted certainly not to take part in protest at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was formally prohibited, sportsmens contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 medals as well as finish fifth. However this effectiveness will certainly certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were invited much of them have actually rejected to complete. Why?