.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has completed near the leading of the medal table at every summer season Olympics given that 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in objection at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually formally banned, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to win 71 medals as well as finish fifth. However this success will certainly certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Simply a few of Russians were actually invited many of all of them have actually declined to complete. Why?