.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has ended up near the best of the medal desk at every summertime Olympics given that 1984, when it decided not to join protest at the games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo video games in 2021, when the Russian staff was actually officially banned, professional athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board succeeded to gain 71 awards and also finish fifth.
But this success will certainly not be redoed in Paris. Merely a small number of Russians were invited most of them have actually rejected to compete. Why?