Anshu, 19, had qualified for the Tokyo Games through the Asian Olympic Qualifier, held in Almaty in April this year. Anshu is now the second Indian to have pulled out of the last Ranking Series event ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.
Earlier, both Manika and G Sathiyan had expressed their unavailability to attend the camp, preferring to continue training in Pune and Chennai respectively with their coaches.
This last minute change of kits seems to have created a challenge to get new kits prepared quickly.
The Tokyo Olympics are slated to be held from July 23 to August 8 and the Indian shooting team will be represented by a record 15 members there.
The decision to host the event by AFI was taken after COVID restrictions forced Indian athletes to miss competition in Kyrgystan; a qualifying event for the Olympics whose cut-off date is June 31.
The shooters were administered the Covishield vaccine, manufactured jointly by AstraZeneca and Serum Institute of India.
Pooja defended her gold in the Asian Championships in Dubai a few days ago by beating Mavluda Movlonova of Uzbekistan in the final.
The decision to part ways with the sportswear company was taken by the IOA on Tuesday, a week after unveiling the kits in the presence of sports minister Kiren Rijiju.
The IOA on Tuesday dropped the Chinese sports apparel co. as its official kit sponsor for the Olympics and stated that the country's athletes will wear unbranded apparel during the Tokyo Games.
Gidey clocked 29 minutes, 1.03 seconds at the Ethiopian Olympic trials, which are being held in the Netherlands. Tsigie Gebreselama was second in 30:06.01.
The team selected by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday was drawn from 55 athletes who fled their home countries and got scholarships to train for the games in a new home country.
Public opinion in Japan consistently maintains canceling the Olympics that open on July 23.
The IOA had unveiled the Olympic kit designed by Li Ning for the Tokyo Games last week, which led to criticism.
The Tokyo Games are scheduled to open on July 23 and over 100 Indian athletes would be gunning for podium finishes at the showpiece.
According to the norms, the number of officials travelling to Olympics cannot be more than one-third of the athlete. However, the sports ministry can allow additional officials at no cost to the government.
Thirteen Olympic-bound pistol and rifle shooters are currently training in Zagreb after having participated as guest invitees in the European Championship recently in Osijek.
The Olympic-bound Indian shooting team is currently in Croatia on a training-cum-competition tour, at the end of which, it will fly directly to Tokyo.
Last month, a government panel had recommended that the dosage interval of Serum Insititute of India's Covishield vaccine be increased to 12-16 weeks.
Sharath, who is set to compete in his fourth Olympics, could not get the visa to train in Denmark and therefore is looking forward to much needed practice in a team environment.
Deepika had qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games in an individual event in November 2019, but the Indian team was off target.
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