.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has ended up near the leading of the award table at every summertime Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join objection at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially outlawed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to win 71 medals and also complete 5th. Yet this effectiveness will definitely certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were invited a number of them have actually declined to complete. Why?