In an interview given this Monday to the newspaper l'Équipe, the former world No.1 in doubles appeared "in good shape", dressed in a red and black tracksuit.
But his statements are troubling to say the least.
Asked about the facts that led to this case and the sexual assault suffered, Peng Shuai denies everything.
“Sexual assault?
I never said that anyone sexually assaulted me,” she insists.
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When asked by journalists about the origin of the censorship of the post, she replies that she deleted it herself.
And why ?
“Because I wanted to,” she says.
Peng Shuai also met Saturday evening in Beijing, members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), during a dinner.
During the joint daily press briefing of the IOC and the Organizing Committee, the IOC spokesman, Mark Adams, recalled that "the IOC, being a sports organisation, our job is to stay in contact with it (...) we let's do everything possible to make her happy”.
"It's not up to us to judge (what happens), we also have to listen to what she says," he insisted.
In the interview with L'Équipe, Peng Shuai also announces that she is ending her professional career.