Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, arrived in Switzerland on Sunday January 15, 2017. He is due to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, an event which has never before been marked by the presence of a Chinese head of state. During his 4-day visit to Switzerland, Xi Jinping must also visit the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, that of the World Health Organization and... the IOC in Lausanne. The Chinese president is due to meet Thomas Bach there. An official meeting which comes in a troubled period for Chinese sport, three of its Olympic champion weightlifters in Beijing in 2008 having just been removed from the charts, after having been declared positive following a new analysis by the IOC of samples taken at the time.
