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The decision has forced Kerala Cricket Association to postpone its maiden T20 league scheduled to begin in Alappuzha on December 17.
Also confirmed for Paris by the IOC executive board were skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing. Those three sports will make their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo Games next year.
The two-week King Abdulaziz Falconry Festival, which gathers more than 4,000 falcons from the Gulf and further afield, honoured Alkhaldi's presence with an award for the first female to make a qualifying competition flight with her bird.
Anju made history with a bronze at the 2003 World Athletics Championship in Paris and is, till date, the only Indian track and field athlete to medal at the Worlds.
The Indian long jump legend made history when she won the bronze medal by clearing 6.70 metres at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. Later, she won a gold medal in the IAAF World Athletics Finals in 2005 in Monaco.
AFI President Adille Sumariwalla expressed confidence that Nair will be able to guide Indian athletes to greater heights.
Johnson, who won the decathlon gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and later helped tackle Robert F Kennedy's assassin, died on Wednesday at the age of 86.
Bach will run unopposed next year for a second term, the IOC said on Tuesday.
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