.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has completed near the top of the award table at every summer months Olympics because 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the activities being composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally disallowed, professional athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to gain 71 medals and end up fifth. However this effectiveness will definitely not be duplicated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were invited a number of all of them have actually refused to compete. Why?