.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has ended up near the best of the medal desk at every summer months Olympics because 1984, when it chose certainly not to take part in demonstration at the activities being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially banned, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 awards and complete 5th. Yet this excellence is going to not be redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually invited many of them have actually rejected to compete. Why?