.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has actually ended up near the best of the award desk at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the activities being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally prohibited, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 medals as well as complete 5th. However this excellence will definitely not be actually duplicated in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were invited much of all of them have actually declined to complete. Why?