.RUSSIA IS AN Olympic powerhouse. The nation has finished near the best of the award desk at every summer Olympics since 1984, when it decided certainly not to join protest at the games being composed Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was officially prohibited, athletes competing under the advertisement of the Russian Olympic Board managed to gain 71 awards as well as end up fifth.
Yet this effectiveness will definitely not be redoed in Paris. Just a handful of Russians were actually welcomed many of all of them have actually rejected to contend. Why?