Embattled Olympic Boxer Warns Viewers Who Are Angry Over Fights with Female Opponents — ‘It Can Destroy People’

Bullying can destroy people, mentally. Unfair professional combat sports can destroy people, physically.
Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Furthermore, it does not constitute the former to point out the latter and note that, in some rare and heartbreaking cases, people should be barred from taking part in public competitions where their participation risks the health of others.
These should be uncontroversial statements. But, in the case of Imane Khelif, the Algerian women’s boxer who has been the subject of much debate these Olympics, l …