Smit buoyant before Games debut

I can’t wait to get out on the track and compete, says Humansdorp-born sprinter

Eastern Cape sprinter Jaco Smit will be hoping to clock some fast times when he represents Team SA at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham next week.

Smit, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, a form of visual impairment, will take to the track in the T12 category, where he will run in the opening round of the T11/T12 100m event taking place on Wednesday, August 3...

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