Algerian boxer Imane Khelif started her week with a request: that people stop bullying her. The athlete, who has been falsely described as transgender, has found herself at the center of a debate about “protecting women’s sports.” The International Olympics Committee has dismissed the controversy around Khelif and another boxer, Lin Yu-Ting as a culture-war issue, and not an argument about sports. Host Carolyn Beeler gets the story from The World’s Bianca Hillier.
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