‘It’s not as simple as an age thing’ – Jason Smyth still driven to be his best

Of all the athletes to front another Irish Olympic campaign Jason Smyth has no right and every right to be chief among them. After all his success, all the medals he’s won, he owes Olympic sport absolutely nothing more, only what he wants and still sees fit and able to achieve.
By his own admission, last summer was his finest hour, Smyth winning an incredibly close final of the T13 100 metres at the Tokyo Paralympics – postponed for a year, don’t forget – at the age of 34. From Beijing 2008, to London 2012, to Rio 2016, to Tokyo 2020(21), the World’s fastest Paralympian …

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