.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has ended up near the top of the award desk at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose not to join demonstration at the video games being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally outlawed, sportsmens completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to succeed 71 awards as well as complete fifth. However this results is going to not be actually duplicated in Paris. Only a small number of Russians were invited a lot of them have actually declined to compete. Why?