Missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai said she is safe during a video call, the International Olympic Committee says
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach held a video phone call with three-time Olympian Peng Shuai, the Olympics governing body announced on Sunday.
The two were accompanied on the video call by Chair of the Athletes' Commission Emma Terho and IOC Member in China Li Lingwei. CNN was not given access to the video."At the beginning of the 30-minute call, Peng Shuai thanked the IOC for its concern about her well-being," according to the IOC statement. "She explained that she is safe and well, living at her home in Beijing, but would like to have her privacy respected at this time.
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