Indian shooter Ayonika Paul, who will participate in the first medal event at the Rio Olympics on August 6, has moved to an apartment after leaving the Games Village.

Her father mentioned this to India Today and said this was done to focus better because the Village is all out fun and excitement and she doesn't need that. (Also Read: Leave Leander alone, appeals father Vece Paes)



Ashim, her father, said Ayonika is staying away from the media and is only focused on becoming India's first woman to win a medal in shooting on Saturday. She is participating in the 10m air rifle event.

Ayonika and Apurvi Chandela are the two women from India in the same event. (Dummy's guide to Rio de Janeiro)

A star-studded Indian shooting contingent will begin their Rio Olympics campaign tomorrow with an in-form Jitu Rai hoping to launch the country's medal haul in an event which will also see his more illustrious senior colleague Abhinav Bindra aiming to end his glorious career on a high.

Success in shooting will be key to India's hopes of surpassing London Olympics' six-medal haul, and the performance of Jitu and Bindra would be crucial to achieve that aim, while the likes of Gagan Narang, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Heena Sidhu and Apurvi can also fetch India medals.

Shooters generally do not like a lot of noise and prefer to train and focus in isolation, far away from the rest of the world.

Bindra's innocuous tweet 15 days ago that he would be incommunicado with the outside world till his fifth and last Olympics campaign begins sums up the mood in the shooting camp.