Dream fulfilled, golden boy Jason Smyth retires

The man from Eglinton in Derry won 21 major championship medals across the Games, Worlds, Europeans and Indoors

GOLDEN BOY: Paralympic legend Jason Smyth retires undefeated as a 6 time Paralympic gold medal winner and World Record Holder at Sport Ireland Institute in Dublin. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Athletics

When they look back at Jason Smyth’s career in the years to come there will be an understanding that nothing became the undefeated Paralympic phenomenon who announced his retirement yesterday so much as his leaving of it in Tokyo.