.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has actually finished near the top of the award desk at every summer season Olympics since 1984, when it opted certainly not to participate in protest at the games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was officially outlawed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 awards and also end up 5th. Yet this effectiveness will definitely not be actually repeated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually welcomed many of them have rejected to contend. Why?