.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has finished near the top of the award desk at every summertime Olympics because 1984, when it decided certainly not to participate in objection at the video games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian group was actually formally prohibited, professional athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee succeeded to gain 71 awards and also complete fifth. Yet this effectiveness will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Just a small number of Russians were actually welcomed a lot of them have declined to complete. Why?