
Peng Shuai meets with IOC president, denies sexual assault allegation in French newspaper
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Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai met with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, the IOC said in a statement Sunday. The two met for dinner, along with two other IOC members, on Saturday, the statement said.
Peng last year sparked international concern when she disappeared from public view for nearly three weeks after seemingly accusing a former high-level Chinese official of forcing her into a sexual relationship. In a separate interview published in a French newspaper Monday, Peng denied ever making the accusation, calling it an "enormous misunderstanding," according to The Associated Press.
Following the dinner, Peng, a former doubles champion at Wimbledon and the French Open and former Olympian, attended the mixed curling match between China and Norway, the IOC said.

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