US' three-time Olympic gold medalist freestyle snowboarder Shaun White during a practice session at the World Park Skateboarding Championship in Sao Paulo on Sept 9, 2019. (CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)

GENEVA - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board has approved rule changes made to the qualification process for the skateboarding competition for Tokyo 2020.

The original qualification schedule was disrupted after the coronavirus pandemic forced the Games to be rescheduled to July 23-August 8, 2021 and numerous qualifiers to be canceled or postponed.

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World Skate has decided to extend the current Olympic qualification period until June 29, 2021. The best four results during this time will count towards qualification.

There will be no change to event tiering, the points system, points already acquired or the quota system in place.

Events in China, Peru and the United States were among the Olympic skateboarding qualifiers postponed or cancelled because of the COVID-19.

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Skateboarding is due to make its debut on the Olympic program at Tokyo 2020.