国际奥委会主席说，他与中国网球明星彭帅进行了面对面的会谈从社交媒体上消失了在指控一名前中国共产党高级官员性侵犯后。
在一个声明国际奥委会周一表示，其主席周六与彭在北京奥林匹克俱乐部共进晚餐。国际奥委会委员科斯蒂·考文垂和前国际奥委会运动员委员会主席也在现场。
声明称，当晚晚些时候，彭随考文垂队参加了中国和挪威的混合冰壶比赛。
尽管彭没有获得冬奥会的参赛资格，但国际奥委会表示，她告诉巴赫，她将在未来几天参加几个奥运会项目。
国际奥委会表示，这次会议是在“过去几个月与彭帅的一系列电话交谈之后召开的，这些电话交谈始于11月21日。”
2021年11月2日，中国社交媒体平台微博上彭的验证账号发布了一篇帖子。在信中，她指控中共前副总理张性侵，并说她与他有长达数年的婚外情。
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(档案)在这张2017年1月16日拍摄的档案照片中，中国的彭帅庆祝他...
“我没有证据，也不可能留下任何证据。...你总是害怕我带什么录音机，留下证据什么的，”帖子写道。“但即使我变得像一个撞在岩石上的鸡蛋，像在火焰中熄灭的飞蛾，我也会说出关于你的真相。”
这篇文章发表后不久，就消失了，彭也消失了。这名运动员在社交媒体上完全缺席，引发了网球界和世界各地球迷的关注。
11月17日，中国官方媒体发布了一封据称是彭发给全球女子网球协会的电子邮件。在信中，彭否认了性侵指控，并说她没事，只是“在家休息”
这封电子邮件的收件人、WTA主席兼首席执行官史蒂夫·西蒙(Steve Simon)在11月告诉美国广播公司新闻，他“很难相信彭帅真的写了我们收到的这封电子邮件，或者相信是她写的。”
11月19日联合国呼吁进行调查成彭的性侵指控，而当天，白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基要求中方提供彭行踪的证明。
两天后，巴赫说他与彭进行了视频通话。国际奥委会发布了视频通话的图像，并在一份声明中说，彭说她做得很好。
在国际奥委会周一的声明中，巴赫表示，他邀请彭在奥运会结束后访问国际奥委会和瑞士洛桑奥林匹克博物馆，她接受了邀请。声明称，考文垂和彭还同意他们将保持联系，“三人都同意，关于会议内容的任何进一步沟通将由她决定。”
IOC holds in-person meeting with Peng Shuai following concerns over disappearance
The president of the International Olympic Committee said he held a face-to-face meeting with Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star whodisappeared from social mediaafter accusing a former top Chinese Communist Party official of sexual assault.
In astatementMonday, the IOC said its president, Thomas Bach, had dinner with Peng on Saturday at the Olympic Club in Beijing. IOC member Kirsty Coventry and the former IOC chair of the athletes’ commission were also there.
later that evening, Peng attended the mixed curling match between China and Norway with Coventry, according to the statement.
Though Peng did not qualify for the Winter Olympics, the IOC said she told Bach that she will attend several Olympic events over the coming days.
The IOC said the meeting followed "a series of telephone conversations with Peng Shuai over the past few months, which started on 21 November."
On Nov. 2, 2021, a post from Peng's verified account on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform -- was published. In it, she accused Zhang Gaoli, the former vice premier of the Chinese Communist Party, of sexual assault, and said she had a years-long affair with him.
"I have no evidence, and it is impossible to leave evidence at all. ... You are always afraid of what recorder I bring, leaving evidence or something," the post read. "But even if I become like an egg hitting against a rock and like moths extinguished in the flame, I will tell the truth about you."
Shortly after it was published, the post disappeared, and so did Peng. The athlete became entirely absent on social media, sparking concern from the tennis community and from fans around the world.
On Nov. 17, Chinese state-run media released an email allegedly from Peng to the global Women's Tennis Association. In it, Peng denied the sexual assault allegations and said she was OK, just "resting at home."
WTA Chairman and CEO Steve Simon, whom the email was addressed to, told ABC News in November that he had a "hard time believing that Peng Shuai actually wrote the email we received or believes what is being attributed to her."
On Nov. 19, theUnited Nations called for an investigationinto Peng's sexual assault allegations, and that same day, White House press secretary Jen Psaki asked China to provide proof of Peng's whereabouts.
Two days later, Bach said he held a video call with Peng. The IOC released an image of the video call and said in a statement that Peng said she was doing fine.
In the IOC's statement Monday, Bach said he invited Peng to visit the IOC and The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and she accepted. Coventry and Peng also agreed they would remain in contact, the statement said, "and all three agreed that any further communication about the content of the meeting would be left to her discretion."
