FILE–Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has a digital dialogue with Chinese language tennis participant Peng Shuai in Lausanne, Switzerland, November 21, 2021. Greg Martin/IOC/ Handout through REUTERS
BERLIN—The Worldwide Olympic Committee has held a second video name with doubles former world primary Peng Shuai amid issues concerning the Chinese language tennis participant’s wellbeing, the IOC stated in a press release on Thursday.
The IOC stated it held the decision, after having first talked to the participant on Nov. 21, on Wednesday night Swiss time, simply earlier than the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation (WTA) introduced a right away suspension of all tournaments in China resulting from issues concerning the participant’s wellbeing.
“We share the identical concern as many different folks and organizations concerning the wellbeing and security of Peng Shuai. This is the reason, simply yesterday, an IOC group held one other video name along with her,” stated the IOC.
“Now we have supplied her wide-ranging assist, will keep in common contact along with her, and have already agreed on a private assembly in January,” it stated, including Peng seemed to be “secure and effectively given the troublesome state of affairs she is in.”
Beijing is internet hosting the 2022 winter Olympics in February.
The whereabouts of Peng, a three-time Olympian, turned a matter of worldwide concern following an almost three-week public absence after she posted a message on social media in early November alleging that China’s former Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli had sexually assaulted her.
Neither Zhang, who retired in 2018, nor the Chinese language authorities have commented on Peng’s allegation and the subject has been blocked from direct dialogue on China’s closely censored web.
The choice by the U.S.-headquartered WTA to stroll away from one in all its largest markets was applauded by many main figures within the tennis world, although it might value it tons of of tens of millions of {dollars} in broadcasting and sponsorship income.
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