.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has actually ended up near the top of the award desk at every summer season Olympics because 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in demonstration at the activities being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was formally banned, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 awards and finish 5th. However this results will certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were invited a number of all of them have refused to complete. Why?