.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has ended up near the leading of the medal table at every summer Olympics given that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join demonstration at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially outlawed, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 awards and finish 5th. But this excellence is going to certainly not be redoed in Paris. Just a few of Russians were invited a lot of all of them have actually declined to complete. Why?