.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has actually completed near the best of the medal table at every summer season Olympics because 1984, when it opted certainly not to join objection at the video games being kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually officially outlawed, athletes competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to succeed 71 awards as well as end up fifth. But this success will certainly certainly not be redoed in Paris. Merely a small number of Russians were actually welcomed much of all of them have refused to contend. Why?