Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai gave a controlled interview that touched on the sexual assault allegations she made against a former high-ranking member of China's ruling Communist Party. Her answers left many unanswered questions.
“Why would you even come find me again, take me to your house and force me and you to have sexual relations?”
“This post resulted in an enormous misunderstanding from the outside world,” she also said. “My wish is that the meaning of this post no longer be skewed.”“Why? Because I wanted to,” she added.The IOC also worked Monday to defuse the situation. It saidon Saturday, a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the Winter Olympics. The IOC said Peng also attended the China-Norway Olympic curling match with IOC member Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe.
He said the IOC cannot pass judgement on whether there should be an investigation of her initial allegations. “I was to say first of all that emotions, sport and politics are three clearly separate things,” the newspaper quoted her as saying. “My romantic problems, my private life, should not be mixed with sport and politics.”
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