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Usain Bolt is the fastest man on Earth but scientists have now proven that if the 27-year-old sprinter went for a run on Titan he would literally be flying.

In a paper published in the Journal of Physics Special Topicsstudents from the University of Leicester calculated that the nitrogen-rich atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon would provide exactly the right conditions for Bolt to achieve take-off - if he was wearing a wingsuit.

On Titan the surface pressure is nearly 50 per cent stronger than Earth’s, meaning that the imbalance of pressure above and below the wings of Bolt’s (hypothetical) wingsuit would achieve lift relatively easily.

The team found that given the average wingsuit area (1.4 metres squared) any individual running above 11 metres per second would be able to take flight – and as Bolt has been clocked at top speeds of 12.27 metres per second, he would be in the air before he hit the finish line in a 100 metre sprint.

And by adjusting the size of the wingsuit, even relatively sluggish runners would be able to take off. With a wing area three times the normal size, a runner going just 6 metres per second would be able to take off.

The Cell C Sharks made it a happy homecoming as they edged out the Jaguares from Argentina 19-15 in what amounted to a Vodacom Super Rugby arm-wrestle at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday night.

It was the Sharks’ first home match at any level this season and they will be pleased to have made it two out of two in the competition so far by overcoming the experienced Argentinian team.

However, they made heavy weather of the task and the final whistle was met with a muted response from Kings Park patrons who possibly ventured to the stadium expecting more.

An arm-wrestle was what Sharks director of rugby Gary Gold said earlier in the week that he didn’t want, but that was what it became.

Ironically, Gold should probably have been pleased that it did go that way, for his pack had the better of their opponents and it was the big men who paved the way for victory while the Jaguares always posed potential danger from broken play and on the counter-attack.

Replacement flyhalf Hayden Parker slotted a late penalty goal to secure the Otago Highlanders a nerve-jangling 17-16 win over the Wellington Hurricanes in Dunedin on Saturday in a re-match of last year's Super Rugby title-decider.

The 25-year-old's angled kick from just outside the 22-metre line at Forsyth Barr Stadium gave the champion Highlanders their first win of the season, while leaving last year's runners up 0-2 and under pressure after two rounds.

"It was a good game, wasn't it? Just lucky we managed to pull through at the end there," Highlanders captain Ben Smith said pitchside.

"It was pretty hot in here tonight."

The Hurricanes turned the ball over in the final minute and had one last chance to mount a raid from deep in defence but replacement back Jason Woodward inexplicably booted the ball to touch to guarantee defeat.

The visitors trailed 11-6 at half-time and were eight points adrift after a Lima Sopoaga penalty in the 49th minute, but Hurricanes captain TJ Perenara pulled them back into the game, lunging over the line from the back of a ruck for their only try in the 56th minute.

Flyhalf Beauden Barrett duly converted and booted a p

FC Barcelona to set up its first African academy in Lagos Read more: https://www.naij.com/739703-fc-barcelona-set-first-african-academy-lagos.html

Barcelona are the reigning UEFA Champions League, Copa Del Rey and La Liga champions. The governor said: “This visit by FC Barcelona is coming at a point where I believe strongly that we have nothing else to say than to say we are committed into this partnership because we know the partnership will give us the first FCBEscola in Africa. “I was made to understand that this is the first of its kind in Africa and so Lagos is priding itself as a major receptor of the next academy to be established in Africa.”
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Watch has been found guilty of breaching Ofcom regulations over a Derren Brown programme.

Something Wicked This Way Comes was broadcast at 9.10am on December 6 and received five complaints over the illusionist swearing and a stunt involving a plastic bag and walking on broken glass.

A 14-minute segment of the show saw Brown place a plastic bag over his head to restrict the air supply to his brain, before removing the bag and walking over broken glass to demonstrate how the human body wouldn't bleed in the situation.

UKTV confirmed that the programme was broadcast in error and "fully acknowledged that the programme was unsuitable for a pre-watershed audience". It added that it was aware of the incident before being contacted by Ofcom, with an internal investigation revealing that the broadcast was a result of "human error".

Watch breaches Ofcom regulations by accidentally airing sweary Derren Brown programme before the watershed