Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, said Thursday that he would meet at the Winter Olympics with Peng Shuai, the tennis player from China who largely disappeared from public life after making sexual abuse accusations against a political official in November.
“The answer is yes,” Bach said soon after sitting down to answer questions at his traditional pre-Games news conference. “We will have the meeting. I am very happy, and also grateful to Peng Shuai.”
The pressing questions Bach was expecting at his news conference were plentiful. Chief among them was the status of Peng, whom Bach had invited to dinner during a private phone call in November.