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These Guys Celebrated Volvo Ocean Race by Jumping All Over the Place
Red Bull Athletes and Professional Freerunners Jason Paul and Pavel Petkuns ran, jumped and flipped their way around Fort Adams.
There’s much to celebrate about the successful Volvo Ocean Race stopover that just wrapped up this past weekend.
You could say the excitement was enough to compel one to jump up and down.
And flip, spin, slide and hop.
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That’s what Jason Paul and Pavel Petkuns did. They’re a pair of Red Bull athletes that “showed off their amazing acrobatic skills to celebrate the Volvo Ocean Race’s sixth stopover in at Fort Adams in Newport,” they said in a statement.
Their high-flying antics were supposed to “highlight the beauty and toughness of the high-performance sailboats, as well as the historic architecture of Fort Adams,” Red Bull said in a statement.
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They released a video of their freerunning, from the streets to the ocean. Check it out below:
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