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USA Boxing team member Ginny Fuchs takes part in drills during media day for the team in a gym located in a converted Macy's Department store in Colorado Springs, Colo., in this Monday, June 7, 2021, file photo. Fuchs’ obsessive-compulsive disorder sometimes compels her to use a dozen toothbrushes a night and to buy hundreds of dollars of cleaning products per week. Yet Fuchs is headed to Tokyo next week to compete in the Olympic boxing tournament, where she realizes it’s almost impossible to avoid touching the blood, sweat and spit of her opponents.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) **FILE**

Olympic boxer Fuchs determined to win her fight against OCD

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Ingrit Valencia, right, of Colombia and Virginia Fuchs, of the United States compete in the women's flyweight boxing final bout at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. U.S. Olympic team boxer Fuchs will face no punishment for failing a doping test after the U.S. Anti-Doping Association determined the violation had been caused by two substances transmitted by her boyfriend through sex. USADA announced its ruling Thursday, June 11, 2020, clearing the 32-year-old Fuchs, who intends to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics next year as a flyweight. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Olympic boxer Fuchs still fighting through tumultuous year

By GREG BEACHAM - Associated Press