“I had to doff my cap to him and celebrate his victory,” Branson writes in the book of Obama’s win. “At the end of the thrilling kitesurfing session, he was standing shirtless at the back of the boat with an invigorated look on his face, muscles bulging and eyes beaming. I looked at him and thought: ‘Eat your heart out, Putin!'
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