Double GOLD for Irish Paralympic Athlete Jason Smyth
Release Date: Sep 16th, 2008
Ireland’s Jason Smyth made amazing achievements in the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, winning Paralympic gold for the second time this week. Jason who has a vision impairment won the 200m (T13) in front of 91,000 spectators, in a new world record time of 21.43sec, remarkably destroying the mark he set in qualifying yesterday by a massive 0.38 of a second.