Saina Nehwal is skipping the meeting beginning tomorrow in Lausanne ©Getty Images

India's Saina Nehwal and Argentina's Luis Scola are both set to miss what would have been their first meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission due to start tomorrow in Lausanne.

The badminton star and basketball player were among four new representatives appointed to the 20-strong body last month,although they are not full members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Neither are scheduled to be formally inducted alongside the other eight new members tomorrow.

London 2012 singles bronze medallist Nehwal has already made clear that she will not attend as she is preparing for Superseries tournaments in China and Hong Kong.

Scola, an Olympic gold medallist at Athens 2004, is likely to be busy playing for National Basketball Association side Brooklyn Nets.

All five of those elected as IOC members during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are scheduled to appear, however, including Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva.

She was approved despite opposition from the IOC membership after missing Rio 2016 due to Russia's suspension by the International Association of Athletics Federations. 

Isinbayeva will be inducted tomorrow, along with German fencer Britta Heidemann, Hungarian swimmer Daniel Gyurta, South Korean table tennis player Ryu Seung-min and New Zealand's BMX cyclist Sarah Walker.

Yelena Isinbayeva, second left, is among five new members of the IOC Athletes' Commission elected in August ©Getty Images
Yelena Isinbayeva, second left, is among five new members of the IOC Athletes' Commission elected in August ©Getty Images

Egyptian modern pentathlete Aya Medany and Jordan taekwondo ace Nadin Dawani will also join, along with World Olympians Association representative, Patrick Singleton of Bermuda.

The meeting, scheduled to take place at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, will also be the first since United States' Angela Ruggiero replaced Germany's Claudia Bokel as chair.

A series of "strategic workshops" are due to take place from Saturday (November 5) onwards.

It can be expected that anti-doping will form a major part of discussions after a year dominated by the ongoing investigations into allegations of state-sponsored doping. 

Isinbayeva has been a fierce critic of Russia's suspension and has frequently denied the allegations.

Other Athletes' Commission colleagues have been far more critical, however, with Britain's Adam Pengilly, the only IOC member to have voted against a motion of confidence in the body's ruling Executive Board's stance towards Russia during August's IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro.