.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has finished near the leading of the medal table at every summer season Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided certainly not to take part in protest at the games being actually composed Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was officially prohibited, athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to gain 71 medals as well as end up 5th. Yet this results will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Merely a handful of Russians were actually welcomed a number of them have actually refused to contend. Why?