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Tue 05 May 2004Forever young at heartThere's no need to slow down in later life. As the Bealtaine festival shows, there's still plenty to do, reports Olivia Kelleher'Winding down" isn't in Gerry Smyth's vocabulary. Now proudly 97-and-a-half years old, he won a gold medal at the World Senior Games in the US last year. The former teacher is just back from a trip to Nice and is already planning a pilgrimage to Lourdes. All the while he keeps up the power walking that brought him so much success at the games, in Utah, last autumn.