.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has finished near the top of the medal desk at every summer Olympics due to the fact that 1984, when it chose not to join protest at the games being actually kept in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally outlawed, sportsmens contending under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to gain 71 awards and also end up fifth. Yet this excellence will definitely certainly not be actually repeated in Paris. Only a handful of Russians were actually welcomed much of all of them have refused to contend. Why?