.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has actually completed near the leading of the award table at every summer months Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it decided not to join objection at the games being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally banned, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 medals and also complete 5th. Yet this effectiveness will definitely not be actually repeated in Paris. Simply a few of Russians were actually welcomed most of them have actually rejected to compete. Why?