Peng Shuai: IOC president Thomas Bach to meet Chinese tennis player inside 'closed loop' at Beijing Olympics
Worldwide Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach will meet Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai inside the 'shut circle' of the Beijing Olympics, he said on Thursday.
The prosperity of Peng, a previous world No 1 copies player, turned into a question of worry in November when she claimed via online media that a previous Chinese bad habit head, Zhang Gaoli, had physically attacked her.
The shut circle is a zone all Games members are confined to stay away from a spread of the Covid contamination in Beijing. The Games authoritatively open on Friday.
Last month Peng said she had never blamed anybody for physically attacking her and that the post she made had been misconstrued. Zhang has not remarked on the matter.
The IOC has held a few video calls with Peng in past weeks and Bach said an arranged gathering would go on at the Games, held from February 4-20.
"We know from her clarifications ... that she is living in Beijing, that she can move openly, investing energy with loved ones," Bach told a news meeting.
"Presently we will actually want to do the subsequent stage in an individual gathering to persuade us face to face of her prosperity and perspective."
Bach said in the event that Peng needed her claims to be examined he would uphold her.
"To have a request we would likewise uphold her in this. However, it's her life, it's her charges," Bach said. "We will find out about her actual uprightness and mental state when we meet her face to face."
The IOC has had a few calls with the player lately however global worries over her security and prosperity have not been eased.
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has suspended competitions in China because of its interests over Peng's wellbeing.
China has not straightforwardly remarked on Peng's underlying post yet said after the WTA's move that it "goes against the politicization of sports".
