Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker will take aim for India in the mixed team air pistol event in Tokyo, with Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhishek Verma forming the other combination.
IOC, after discussions with the International Federations (IFs) has decided "to provide flexibility for team selections in several sports."
Bach, however, reinforced the IOC position that it cannot make vaccination compulsory two months before the Games.
Bach lauded new advances in rapid testing as a boost to hold the games.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach says he doesn't expect countries to pull out of next year's Tokyo Olympics due to Covid pandemic and that athletes too won't be barred if they test negative.
The decision was taken at the virtual meeting of the IOC Executive Board on Wednesday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that it is "shocked" by the development.
Afraki execution has attracted international outcry as the wrestler earlier claimed innocence and said he was tortured into false confession
Bach stresses that athletes will have to be co-operative and adhere to all the safety guidelines to be in place for the Olympics
Former Indian Oil Corp (IOC) chairman Sanjiv Singh has joined Reliance Industries Ltd as Group President for billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run firm's oil-to-chemicals business.
Bach was elected to the position on September 10, 2013 at the 125th IOC Session. He succeeded Jacques Rogge at the session that was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A total of 57 per cent of all the qualification places had been confirmed by the time the Tokyo Olympic was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mittal had earlier demanded an IOC ethics commission inquiry into alleged irregularities in Batra's election as IOA president in 2017, which the world body had rejected last week.
In separate letters to IOC President Thomas Bach, IOA vice-presidents Sudhanshu Mittal and Adile Sumariwalla spoke for and against Narinder Batra respectively.
Last month, the IOC set June 29, 2021, as the new deadline for the qualification period of the Tokyo Olympics, which has been rescheduled to next year in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
IOC President made the comments after the IOC and the World Health Organisation signed an agreement to work together to "promote health through sport and physical activity."
The International Olympic Committee will hold its 136th session virtually on July 17.
The agenda and organisation of the IOC session will be worked out by IOC Executive Board at their next meeting to be held remotely on May 14.
Most NOCs hold their elections in the year after the Games, with Presidents and Executive Committee members serving four-year terms at a time.
The IOC also made clear that athletes who finish serving their anti-doping suspensions before the Tokyo 2020 unveils in 2021 could be eligible to participate in the Games.
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