The U-turn comes less than 24 hours after the IPC announced on Wednesday that Russian and Belarussian athletes would be allowed to compete when the Games begin
ended its charter, making it a direct process to remove disciplines from the Games program. There is a feeling that the axe could first hit weightlifting and possibly boxing.
The first batch of India's Olympic-bound athletes will leave for Tokyo on July 17. 126 athletes are bound for the Games.
The Tokyo Olympics will see no fans in attendance as Japan battles a new wave of the coronavirus.
IOC president Thomas Bach has cancelled the trip to Japan as the country battles the fourth wave of infections.
Japan is facing a fourth wave of coronavirus infections, throwing the games in doubt.