What happened to Peng Shuai

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.5	Up until a few weeks ago, you had to be a tennis fan to know who Pung Shui was.
1:09.5	Then she said something the Chinese government didn't like.
1:14.1	And then her name rang out until this week when Pung Shui transcended tennis, she changed
1:22.1	how international sports reckon with authoritarianism in China.
1:27.8	On the show today, we're going to figure out how that happened starting with Pung's story.
1:32.7	John Worthyme from Sports Illustrated is here to tell it.
1:36.3	Shui was or is there seems to be some discussion about whether she is retired or was merely
1:41.2	taking a break.
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