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The missive comes in the wake of the embarrassment that the country's contingent faced during the Commonwealth Games earlier this year.
The IOA stuck to its earlier criteria of picking athletes - top six in individual events and top eight in team sports - after a meeting of its Core Committee and Legal Committee.
The sports ministry on Wednesday urged the IOA to relax selection norms in specific cases 'in the larger interest of the sports and sportspersons' after concerns were raised by various athletes and teams that have missed the cut.
The IOA wrote to all the National Sports Federation (NSF)s, whose athletes are scheduled to compete in the Asian Games, to submit a medical assessment report by August 10.
The IOA shot off a letter to the Sports Ministry, asking how these four officials and support staff were included in the contingent without being recommended by it.
IOA chief Narinder Batra said that the team, which reached Lahore on Saturday, is not an official one from the country and hence, it cannot use the word 'India'.
Annu was part of the Indian javelin contingents that were airlifted back from their foreign training camps in March as travel restrictions started being put in place in the wake of the oronavirus outbreak. She is now at the National Institute of Sports, Patiala.
Chinese companies in India are facing a backlash after the killing this week of 20 Indian soldiers by Chinese forces in a Himalayan border dispute.
IOA President Narinder Batra hopes the matter will be dealt with swiftly and that a situation such as this might prove detrimental to India's hopes of making a mark at the Olympics.
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