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Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis player, meets I.O.C. leader at the Olympics.

Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis player who largely disappeared from public life after making sexual abuse accusations against a political official in November, held a private meeting with Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, in Beijing.

Bach didn’t immediately release any details of the meeting, but an I.O.C. spokesman confirmed that the two had met, as promised last week by Bach. A statement was expected later on Monday.

The questions, on a variety of pressing issues, were plentiful. Chief among them, though, was the status of Peng, whom Bach had invited to dinner during a private phone call in November.