2012 London Olympics

Fifty-year-old Roald Bradstock wins javelin silver at Aviva Trials
Performance artist throws 72.78m
Andy Bull in Birmingham The Observer, Saturday 23 June 2012 11.33 EDT Roald Bradstock celebrates his javelin throw during the men's final at the Aviva 2012 UK Olympic Trials and Championship at Alexander Stadium. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
It has been two years since I declared my intention to try to qualify for the 2012 UK Olympic Trials, when I will be 50.I don't know what odds the local bookie would have given, but it is safe to say they would have been pretty long.Well, on May 19, on a warm spring evening in Tuscon, Arizona, I broke my own UK Veterans javelin record three more times and set three more world age records for a 49-year-old. But my most important accomplishment that evening was that I threw far enough to qualify for the 2012 UK Olympic Trials – my eighth consecutive Olympic Trials.
Javelin ace inspires children about London 2012 through art. Wednesday 6 July: Schoolchildren in Suffolk have taken part in an art class with a difference as Roald Bradstock, a Great Britain javelin thrower and former world record holder led an Olympic-themed art master class at Kirkley School in Lowestoft. Roald is one of the Youth Sport Trust’s ambassadors for the Sports College Legacy Programme which inspires children to learn across a range of school subjects by using the Olympic and Paralympic Games to engage pupils.
Olympic Picasso' will paint the town red if he reaches Games at 50 Simon Turnbull: On the YouTube section of Roald Bradstock's website, you can see a clip of him throwing in the Olympic javelin final in Los Angeles in 1984. On the YouTube section of Roald Bradstock's website, you can see a clip of him throwing in the Olympic javelin final in Los Angeles in 1984. "He's had injuries," commentator Stuart Storey says of the javelin thrower-cum-artist who has come to be known as "the Olympic Picasso". "He has got a weak back."
Published: 13/01/2011 10:43 - Updated: 13/01/2011 10:45
Roald, age 48, sets standard for London 2012 By Andrew Franczak
A 48-year-old javelin thrower from Broxbourne, who has set himself the ambitious goal of qualifying for the London 2012 Olympics, is proving that age may not be a barrier to his dream by setting a new world record.