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Watch Usain Bolt Running in a Zero-Gravity Flight Over France

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s Usain Bolt! In zero-gravity!

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Was it a bird? A plane?

No, it was Usain Bolt's latest publicity stunt.

The eight-time Olympic gold medalist took a zero-gravity flight over France on Wednesday, 12 September, courtesy of a champagne producer.

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Taking a break from his efforts to become a professional soccer player, Bolt said he felt like a “kid in a candy store” after spending about four minutes floating and joking around in near-weightless conditions.

Aboard the Airbus A310 plane, the 32-year-old Jamaican caught a free-floating globule of champagne in his mouth and ran in low-gravity conditions.

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