NAPLES, Italy \u2014 Italian boxer\u00a0Angela Carini\u00a0has hit out at the online abuse she has received since her Olympic fight against Imane Khelif last year, which she said \u201cdestroyed her career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carini tearfully quit\u00a0her opening bout with Imane Khelif of Algeria at the Paris Olympics after just 46 seconds, going on to explain afterward that she took the extremely unusual decision because of the pain from her opponent’s opening punches.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Carini published\u00a0a video on Instagram\u00a0with screenshots of messages she has received on social media \u2014 some begging her not to go to the Olympics again, others calling her \u201ca coward\u201d and \u201cthe shame of the Italy team\u201d \u2014 and a voiceover of the 26-year-old explaining how she felt.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave you ever wondered how hard it was for me to face these words? What I had to endure and endure day after day? What I had to face in my silence, while preserving my health from a stupid social network, from people who speak and say words without thinking twice?\u201d Carini said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause for them it\u2019s just a sentence, it\u2019s\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAPLES, Italy \u2014 Italian boxer\u00a0Angela Carini\u00a0has hit out at the online abuse she has received since her Olympic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-138286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}