.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has finished near the top of the medal desk at every summer season Olympics considering that 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in protest at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian group was actually officially outlawed, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to succeed 71 medals as well as complete fifth. Yet this success will not be actually duplicated in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were invited much of them have actually rejected to contend. Why?