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Sean Ingle in Beijing

IOC president vows to support Peng Shuai over sexual harassment allegations

Spectators wearing T-shirts supporting Peng Shuai at the Australian Open.
Spectators wearing T-shirts supporting Peng Shuai at the Australian Open. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

The International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has promised to support tennis player Peng Shuai if she calls for an investigation into her sexual harassment allegations.

Speaking at a press conference in Beijing, Bach also revealed that Peng would enter the closed-loop system at the Games – which requires a series of negative PCR tests – for a face-to-face meeting with him in the coming days.

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