Peng Shuai says allegation was ‘enormous misunderstanding’

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has told a French newspaper that international concern over her well-being is based on an enormous misunderstanding and she denied having accused a Chinese official of sexual assault.L’Equipe, which specialises in sports news, published the interview Monday. The publication said it spoke to the tennis player a day earlier in a Beijing hotel in an hour-long interview organised through China’s Olympic committee.Also Monday, the International Olympic Committee released a statement saying IOC President Thomas Bach had dinner with Peng on Saturday, and she attended the China-Norway curling match with IOC member Kirsty Coventry.



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