have the games. the international the olympic committee has given them the ability to host the games there. as despicable as it is and everything going on over there, staying home isn t going to change it. didn t we learn from the boycott of the games in moscow because the soviets invaded afghanistan? look what happened there. and our athletes didn t have the opportunity to goab and look what happened in afghanistan. don t use the athletes as pawns. there are other ways you can punish china. the biggest way is not to give them the games. leave our athletes alone. let them deal with the issues that are there, and they are there to compete. brian: you beat the soviet team. we boy cod moscow and they boycotted los angeles.
have the games. the international the olympic committee has given them the ability to host the games there. as despicable as it is and everything going on over there, staying home isn t going to change it. didn t we learn from the boycott of the games in moscow because the soviets invaded afghanistan? look what happened there. and our athletes didn t have the opportunity to goab and look what happened in afghanistan. don t use the athletes as pawns. there are other ways you can punish china. the biggest way is not to give them the games. leave our athletes alone. let them deal with the issues that are there, and they are there to compete. brian: you beat the soviet team. we boy cod moscow and they boycotted los angeles.
president, thomas bach, is planning to meet with her, but it is possible we will not hear very much about the content of that meeting. take a listen to this spokesperson from the ioc. you ll appreciate we won t release details through the media of that meeting, but the meeting will take place. and as the president very eloquently said, we would talk with her and it would be up to her to decide what would and wouldn t be said. just a brief recap, kim, peng shuai, several months ago, set off a firestorm when she published this very emotional accusation that a former senior chinese government official had allegedly sexually assaulted her. and she kind of then disappeared from public view. we saw the very heavy-handed chinese internet censors erase
historic gold medal win for new zealand in women s snowboarding. and the russian olympic committee just snagged gold and silver in the men s cross-country skiathlon, but it s not just the athletes making headlines. controversy is all casting a shadow over this year s games, including concerns over chinese tennis star peng shuai. her well-being was thrust into the spotlight last year after she accused a top chinese official of sexual assault, and then disappeared from public view. on sunday, the international olympic committee confirmed plans to meet with her during the games. this year s olympics also comes amid simmering tensions between beijing and the rest, with several countries declaring diplomatic boycotts of the games over what they say are china s human rights abuses. we re covering all of this here on cnn. coy wire is standing by in beijing, but first let s go to ivan watson in hong kong. ivan, let s start with peng shi and the ioc confirming that they do plan on meeting with
have the games. the international the olympic committee has given them the ability to host the games there. as despicable as it is and everything going on over there, staying home isn t going to change it. didn t we learn from the boycott of the games in moscow because the soviets invaded afghanistan? look what happened there. and our athletes didn t have the opportunity to goab and look what happened in afghanistan. don t use the athletes as pawns. there are other ways you can punish china. the biggest way is not to give them the games. leave our athletes alone. let them deal with the issues that are there, and they are there to compete. brian: you beat the soviet team. we boy cod moscow and they boycotted los angeles.