.RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY AN Olympic powerhouse. The country has finished near the top of the award table at every summer months Olympics considering that 1984, when it opted certainly not to join objection at the video games being actually held in Los Angeles. Even at the Tokyo activities in 2021, when the Russian team was actually formally banned, athletes completing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee managed to gain 71 awards and end up 5th.
Yet this effectiveness will definitely certainly not be duplicated in Paris. Simply a small number of Russians were invited many of all of them have actually declined to compete. Why?