Peng Shuai denies ‘disappearing’ after sex assault claim
The player at last held a video meeting with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on November 21 and later showed up in recordings showing her going to games.
"I won't ever vanish. It's that many individuals, similar to my companions or individuals from the IOC informed me, and it was basically difficult to answer such countless messages," Peng told the French games paper L'Equipe in a Chinese-language meet that was distributed on Monday.
"Yet, I've been consistently in close contact with my dear companions. I conversed with them, I addressed their messages, I likewise chatted with the WTA."
"In the text we could find in Europe, you blamed somebody for rape. What did you truly compose? We don't comprehend," the games day by day's writers asked Peng.
"Rape? I never said anybody had physically attacked me in any capacity," she answered without explaining.
In her presently erased post on China's Twitter-like Weibo, Peng had expressed "for what reason did you take me to your home and power me into having relations with you?"
Peng recently denied making the claim in a meeting with Lianhe Zaobao, a Chinese language Singapore paper, in December.
Conversation of the outrage has been intensely edited in China's firmly controlled the internet and looks for Peng's name on Weibo keep on showing no new indexed lists.
Peng has not refreshed her Weibo account since the post was eliminated.
Peng's video appearances and dissents have done practically nothing to mollify worries about her prosperity with fans finally month's Australian Open wearing T-shirts bearing the inquiry 'Where could Peng Shuai be?'
The tennis star said she had likewise met Bach, who is going to the Winter Olympic Games.
"We ate together on Saturday and we had a pleasant conversation and trade," said Peng, who additionally declared her retirement from tennis.
In an explanation on Monday, the IOC affirmed the gathering had occurred and said Peng would go to a few Olympics occasions. She additionally plans to go to Europe after the pandemic and visit the IOC base camp in Switzerland, it added.
