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In July 2021, as the Olympic Games were underway, an image supposedly showing an X-ray of a gymnast in the middle of a stunt was widely circulated on social media: This is a genuine X-Ray (or more accurately a CT scan) of a person in a seemingly uncomfortable position. This image has nothing to do with the 2020 Olympics, however, and it does not show a gymnast in the middle of a stunt. This image shows contortionist Irene Betti and was first popularized when it posted to the website of a Contortion Amsterdam, a stretching studio in the Netherlands. The studio writes on its website: This image is no longer available on Contortion Amsterdam's website, and we have not been able to find any archived versions. However, a slightly different version of this image has also been posted to the studio's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ContortionAmsterdam/photos/a.110406773837873/110418327170051/ The image has been going around for years. In 2018, it was posted to Reddit along with some now-defunct links back to Contortion Amsterdam's websites. While those links are no longer operational, the Reddit post included the caption that supposedly accompanied this image: Other postings of this image identified the featured contortionist as Irene Betti. We reached out to Betti and she confirmed that she is the contortionist in this image. Betti couldn't remember the specific details about the image, but said that it was taken by Michel Ritz, a French physiotherapist who studies contortionists. Betti said (translated via Google and edited for clarity): We found another photograph of Betti in a similar position to the pose shown in the CT scan image. Here's a video of Betti performing in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2e_ogb8Kek This image truly shows a CT scan of a contortionist in a position that would be, for lack of a better word, awkward for most people.
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