They jump over walls, leap tall buildings in a single inhuman bound, and they can even attack a low-flying hang glider!

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That said, the recent management of the sale of Olympics tickets - where there were 22 million applications for 650 events at four different price points - suggests that the IT challenge would be the equivalent of climbing Everest in trainers and shorts rather than flying to Mars in a glider.

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It said Miss Preston had been flying paragliders for two years and started hang glider training in April 2011.

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