Involution on torus such that quotient space is sphere

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I got stuck while reading this:

Consider the torus sitting in $\mathbb{R}^3$ like a donut on a table.

Then you see that it is invariant by a rotation of $180^\circ$ around an horizontal axis.

The quotient by such involution is a sphere.

My question is why the orbit space is sphere?

I couldn't understand how to visualize it?

For reference I want to add this math stack question Is it possible to obtain a sphere from a quotient of a torus? - see the first answer

Thank you.