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As said by many, there's a hidden structure that supports everyone here. So every athlete is only supporting themselves.
If you want to see people supporting each other in a tower structure search for Catalonian Castells.
Yep these are insane, and really dangerous.
They are not so dangerous, in more than 200 years there are only 5 deaths documented as of 2016 ^1^ (I can't find a more recent source), and as of 2023 there were 79 potentially severe lesions for 5337 castells ^2^.
Oh wow that's indeed way less than I would've thought. Still dangerous IMO but clearly the people doing it are very good at it.
people really just say shit with confidence like it's a fact and don't even google it first
I mean 5 people died, and if you go read their first link you'll see injuries are common and on the rise (it's the whole premise of the article). Theyare dangerous, the fact they're really good at it and aren't constantly dying doesn't change that? It's like saying corrida isn't dangerous because they don't get gored by the bull every time.
I was just poking fun, I agree with you that they are dangerous lol
Yeah, if you zoom in, you can see metal posts between the legs of the athletes at that level. I can't discern any other structure at other levels, but at least the guys on the outwards-facing level can't be bearing much weight on their rear-stretched arms, even if they're doing it entirely through tension. The women at the bottom are mostly hiding the platform level 2.5 is at.
It's a nice display, regardless! I also like the subtle, probably unintended metaphor of all of those people at the heights - mostly layers of men - standing on a supporting base of women. The other metaphor is that the masses are being held up by a few strong men, which is dumb. And I honestly believe this is a purely aesthetic display, and that the metaphors I'm seeing are entirely of my own construction.