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“First of all, I must emphasize that I never said or wrote that someone had sexually assaulted me,” said Pcheng Shui in a short interview with journalist Lianhe Zaobao, a Singaporean Chinese newspaper. The meeting of the two women in Shanghai was the first time that the athlete discussed the whole case she spoke in public.
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The letter said he had an interview succeeded Get in on the promotional event for the Beijing Winter Olympics, which begins on February 4. Pcheng Shuai, along with former NBA star Yao Ming and other Chinese sports figures from the viewing platform, watched the ski freestyle race.
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According to the published video, the tennis player apparently did not count on the interview in advance. At first she did not understand the journalist’s questions, she said she could not hear well. This is followed by a cut that Pcheng Shui talked about.
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The case of a 35-year-old tennis player concerns a sexual assault she was to face from a former high-ranking Communist Party politician, which she complained about at the Weibo social network in early November. Her post was deleted shortly afterwards, and the tennis player fell to the ground.
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Chinese state media later published an e-mail in which the tennis player writes that she is not in danger and withdraws her accusations. But the report did not convince many. Part of the public did not accept several videos as sufficient evidence, in which the tennis player signs balls for children, or a video conversation between the athlete and the chairman of the International Olympic Committee.
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It was the journalist who asked Pcheng Shui about the mentioned e-mail, and the tennis player really wrote it according to her own words, of her own free will. During the interview, she also let herself be heard that the case was accompanied by many misunderstandings and emphasized that it was her private matter.
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Since the publication of the article, the athlete has been to be at home in Beijing, where she is said to be able to move freely and without supervision. “Why would anyone follow me? I’ve always been free, “is one of the tennis player’s answers on the video. The name of Chang Kao-li, in whose direction her November charge she was aiming, there was no conversation.
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The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) also commented on the latest shots and words of Pcheng Shui. Earlier, in response to the whole case, she decided to cancel the tournaments she had organized in the country. Sunday’s public appearance by the Chinese star allegedly did not resolve the association’s concerns about its well-being, and the authority is still calling for an investigation.
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“We remain steadfast in calling for a full, fair and transparent investigation into her allegations of sexual assault, which is the cause of our initial concerns,” she said. declaration WTA.
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The investigation was also supported by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which, unlike the WTA, decided not to cancel the tournaments. “The allegations need to be investigated and we will continue to work to resolve everything. But it’s important to keep in mind that the International Tennis Federation is the world’s governing body, and one of the things we’re responsible for is local development, “David Haggerty, who heads the ITF, told BBC Sport in early December. “We don’t want to punish a billion people.”
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Concerns among human rights activists have not allayed fears. “So after 48 days, Pcheng Shui unexpectedly met with a journalist from a Pro-Beijing newspaper and then casually answered her questions about the event, which attracted intense international attention. Wow, so natural, very real, now everyone believes it. Congratulations, CCP! ” she wrote on Twitter Yachiou Wang, a Chinese Human Rights Watch researcher with a link to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Tennis player, accused, Chang Kao-li was one of seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee as Deputy Prime Minister from 2013 to 2018, headed by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the same time as he is now. The politician thus worked on the highest levels of the local Communist Party. However, he has not appeared in public since the publication of the article and has not commented on the allegations.
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The controversy caused by the tennis player’s story also contributed, among other things, to the protests against the Winter Olympics in China. These drive human rights violations in the country, and have even led to diplomacy boycott sporting events by some countries. In this context, Beijing often talks about the unnecessary politicization of sport.
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