The international olympic committee has also sort of been the middle man in this story. Critics are taking us back to 19 36, when adolp hitler used the berlin olympics as a great propaganda tool. People are seeing similarities between that and how a china is being set up for these 20 22 olympics with bad things going on there.
A tennis star accused a former top Chinese official of sexual assault. Then she vanished. Now her case is changing sports in China.
Today's show was produced by Will Reid with help from Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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