.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has ended up near the best of the award desk at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it chose not to join demonstration at the video games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially banned, athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board achieved to gain 71 awards as well as end up 5th. But this effectiveness is going to certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were actually invited most of them have declined to complete. Why?