.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has ended up near the best of the medal desk at every summertime Olympics because 1984, when it opted certainly not to take part in protest at the video games being actually composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian team was actually officially outlawed, professional athletes completing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Committee achieved to win 71 medals and also finish 5th. But this effectiveness will certainly certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were welcomed a lot of them have rejected to compete. Why?