.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has finished near the top of the award desk at every summer months Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it opted not to participate in objection at the video games being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially prohibited, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 awards and also finish 5th. Yet this results will not be actually repeated in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were actually invited much of them have declined to compete. Why?