.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has finished near the top of the medal table at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it opted certainly not to join objection at the video games being held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally disallowed, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to gain 71 awards and also end up fifth. But this success will definitely not be actually repeated in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited much of all of them have actually declined to compete. Why?