.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has actually finished near the leading of the award table at every summer months Olympics given that 1984, when it decided certainly not to take part in protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally banned, sportsmens contending under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 medals as well as complete fifth. Yet this effectiveness is going to not be redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of them have declined to contend. Why?