.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has ended up near the leading of the medal desk at every summertime Olympics since 1984, when it opted not to join protest at the games being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually formally banned, sportsmens completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 awards as well as finish fifth. Yet this results will certainly not be actually redoed in Paris. Merely a small number of Russians were invited most of them have refused to compete. Why?