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Activists hand out "Where is Peng Shuai?" t-shirts outside Melbourne Park, where the Australian Open women's final will take place on Saturday. The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday that it has spoken with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai again and plans to meet her in Beijing during next month's Winter Games. IMAGES
Argentine fans react as Lionel Messi scores their team's first goal against Australia in the round of 16 in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, outside a bar in Buenos Aires. IMAGES
Images of French sports daily L'Equipe, which publishes an interview with the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai in which she says she "never disappeared". IMAGES
"I think we can say that we are doing everything we can to make sure this situation is as it should be," says an IOC spokesperson on Peng Shuai retracting allegations of sexual assault against a top Chinese official. IMAGES ++COMPLETES 9YJ2ZM++
IOC spokesperson Mark Adams says it is not up to the sports organization or the media to answer the question of whether Peng Shuai was speaking freely when she recanted her allegations of sexual assault against a top Chinese official. SOUNDBITE
The International Olympic Committee would support an inquiry into the allegations made by Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai -- if she wants one, its president Thomas Bach said on Thursday. IMAGES