.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has actually completed near the best of the award desk at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually officially outlawed, athletes contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to win 71 awards as well as complete 5th. Yet this results will certainly not be actually duplicated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were invited a number of all of them have actually refused to compete. Why?