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Olympics-Peng Shuai watches as Gu puts China atop medals table

Published by maria gbaf

Posted on February 8, 2022

3 min read

Last updated: January 20, 2026

Peng Shuai watches Eileen Gu win gold at Beijing Olympics - Global Banking & Finance Review — Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai observes Eileen Gu's gold medal victory in Big Air at the Beijing Olympics, highlighting China's success in the medals table.

By Julien Pretot and Tony Munroe

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai was on hand on Tuesday to watch China’s Eileen Gu as she won gold in the Big Air competition in Beijing to put the host nation at the top of the medals table.

Peng, who could be seen in the stands wearing a black knit hat with the Olympic rings on them and a black coat with the Chinese flag, acknowledged a greeting from a journalist but declined to answer questions as she left the venue.

Peng’s well-being became a matter of global concern when she appeared to allege https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-tennis-star-peng-says-ex-vice-premier-forced-her-into-sex-2021-11-03 on social media in November that a former Chinese vice premier, Zhang Gaoli, had sexually assaulted her in the past. After that post, which was quickly removed, she disappeared from public view for nearly three weeks.

During Tuesday morning’s competition she was seated among Olympic athletes and delegation members from several countries next to the finish area at Big Air Shougang, the distinctive venue built on the site of a former steel mill.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach visited with members of the group including Peng during the competition.

“I just met her, she was here sitting in the stadium,” Bach told Reuters.

“She was among the athletes, and I had the opportunity to meet with a number of athletes from Switzerland and from Germany and the U.S.”, he said.

A three-time Olympian, Peng’s presence during the Games had been a matter of speculation since the IOC said it planned to meet with her in Beijing. The IOC, which had said last week that Peng would meet with Bach inside the Olympic bubble, said previously that Peng had attended a curling competition.

Bach said Peng would soon be leaving the “closed loop”, which separates Olympic competitors and related personnel from the Chinese public to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

“She was sitting there and we had the opportunity to talk and now she has to go to the quarantine, she told me, she will leave now the closed loop,” Bach said.

Peng has said little since her initial social media post and discussion of the scandal has been heavily censored in China’s tightly controlled cyberspace, with searches for Peng’s name on Weibo continuing to show no recent search results.

However, in an interview conducted on Sunday with French newspaper L’Equipe at a hotel inside the Olympic bubble in Beijing, Peng denied she had made such allegations https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-tennis-player-peng-denies-making-accusation-sexual-assault-2022-02-07.

The World Tennis Association, which suspended its tournaments in China following Peng’s post, said on Monday that Peng’s denial of making the accusation, had done little to address concerns about her safety https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/wta-says-latest-peng-interview-does-not-ease-concerns-about-her-safety-2022-02-07.

The San Francisco-born Gu, China’s biggest star at the Games, said she was glad to hear of Peng’s presence on Tuesday.

“I’m really grateful that she’s happy and healthy and out there doing her things again.”

(Reporting by Julien Pretot and Tony MunroeEditing by Shri Navaratnam)