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A large indoor hall with a white ceiling hung with colourful paper lanterns, umbrellas and cylindrical decorations. In the centre a young woman in a black top and patterned green trousers hangs from a thick rope while climbing between two tall wooden poles, with a blue crash mat beneath her. Several men in casual shirts hold and steady the poles on the red-carpeted floor. Behind them, a seated audience of men and women in colourful saris and white clothes sits on mats watching, with a man in a white shirt and lanyard standing near the rope. The scene reads as a rope and pole gymnastics demonstration.

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