It remains to be seen if the i o c can recover its credibility. But it feels like her initial meto call out of this high ranking chinese government official has forced all sorts of reckonings in international sports and even politics. Do you think she had any idea that she might set off this sequence of events with this, you know, initial letter posted to social media? You know, in her initial social media post, which was quickly taken down, she had some language that basically spoke to, this is not something do in china without paying consequences. There are a lot of people who think now that she is paying the consequences with what china appears to be doing with
A tennis star accused a former top Chinese official of sexual assault. Then she vanished. Now her case is changing sports in China.
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