.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has finished near the top of the award table at every summer Olympics considering that 1984, when it chose certainly not to join protest at the activities being held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo games in 2021, when the Russian team was officially outlawed, sportsmens competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to succeed 71 awards and complete 5th.
Yet this results will certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Simply a handful of Russians were actually welcomed much of all of them have declined to complete. Why?