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Double GOLD for Irish Paralympic Athlete Jason Smyth

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.

Release Date: 
Monday, 15 September, 2008
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Ireland’s Jason Smyth achieved an amazing double in the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, winning Paralympic gold for the second time this week.
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