.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has ended up near the top of the award desk at every summer Olympics because 1984, when it decided certainly not to take part in demonstration at the activities being kept in Los Angeles. Also at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian group was officially prohibited, sportsmens competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 awards and finish 5th. Yet this results will not be repeated in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually invited a lot of them have actually refused to compete. Why?