Just the dates have changed on Smyth’s Tokyo mission

Jason Smyth will be 34 at Tokyo 2021 if the Games occupy the same calendar slot, but he isn’t worried that time will catch up his legs.

Set to run the 100m and 200m in the T-13 visually impaired category, Smyth has five Paralympic gold medals (two Beijing 2008, two London 2012, one Rio 2016). File picture.

“The goalposts have moved, but the goal remains the same. What I want to achieve hasn’t changed, just when I want to achieve it.”

That’s the reaction of the fastest ever Paralympian, Jason Smyth, to the postponement of the Tokyo Paralympic games.