.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has actually completed near the leading of the award desk at every summer season Olympics because 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in demonstration at the games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian crew was actually formally banned, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 medals and also end up 5th. However this success will certainly not be repeated in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were actually welcomed most of them have declined to compete. Why?