My Blogs

Going for the Old sports-masters December 10, 2021 By Roald Bradstock My days of competing in the Olympic Games and going for the Gold are long, long gone.  But that doesn’t mean my days of competing are over, even though I am just a few months shy from turning...

Going For The Old Published: 2021-12-07 5/5 Average rating My days of competing in the Olympic Games and going for the Gold are long, long gone.  But that doesn’t mean my days of competing are over, even though I am just a few months shy from turning 60....

Where Sport Meets Arts and Culture The Olympic Agora is a lively cultural destination in the host city of the Olympic Games, with dynamic exhibitions, artistic interventions, special events and digital activations. As every edition of the Olympic Games is played out in an atmosphere of excellence,...

Tokyo Olympics Gets Cultural Hub   The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, which are set to open in the Japanese capital next month after being delayed by a year because of the pandemic, will be accompanied by a new cultural hub called Olympic Agora. Running from July 1...

“Olympic Agora” cultural hub to open ahead of Olympic Games Tokyo 2020   Featuring a series of art installations, exhibitions and digital programmes celebrating Olympism, the first-ever Olympic Agora will commemorate the cultural aspect of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The programme will feature a site-specific legacy...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Power of Negativity Published: 2021-05-02 In today’s sporting world a lot of emphasis is put on the power of positivity: making positive comments, creating a positive environment, and having positive thoughts – which together creates a positive experience and...

Behind the curtains of the art studio   Roald Bradstock, Lanny Barnes and Jean Blaise Evequoz, the three Olympian artists involved in this initiative spent 2 weeks inside the art studio. Today, they remember funny, sweet and touching pieces of life live from the art workshop. Discover...

“I want to embrace the Olympic values of respect, friendship and excellence in the execution of this project."   Roald Bradstock is a two-time British Olympic javelin thrower (GBR- 1984 & 1988) and an award winning international Olympic sports artist (USA – 2000). Bradstock's antics on and...

One of the franchising community’s top leaders has a first-hand view of the “drive to win” needed to succeed at the Olympic Games. Any Lab Test Now CEO Clarissa Bradstock’s husband is Roald Bradstock, an Olympic athlete in the javelin and award-winning artist. The multi-talented couple just returned to the U.S. from the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea.

Are we fighting a losing battle trying to stop athletes taking performance enhancing drugs? Is cheating just so much a part of “our” collective genetic makeup that it can never be eradicated from sport? Is the only option to throw more money at it, and make the offenders criminals and put them in prison, or is there an alternative, albeit extreme option?
Original Article Inspiration is an integral part of sports: inspiring stories, inspirational performances and inspirational athletes. Cheating, unfortunately, is another, albeit less savory, aspect of the sporting world. But how can two such polar opposites come together to inspire us? It's not possible, is it?
Friday, 13 July 2012
One of the things I teach as a coach, and lecture on as legacy ambassador for the Youth Sport Trust at sport colleges around the UK, is the importance failure plays in both sport and art. It is a necessary "evil" for any athlete or artist to really grow, mature and reach their full potential. It is important to learn from your failures and mistakes. Often you learn just as much, if not more, from your failures as your successes.
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.
Friday, 11 March 2011
This past weekend I traveled with my family, my wife and mother, to beautiful Fort Myers, Florida for the official grand opening of the Art of the Olympians (AOTO) Museum. International Olympic Committee member and five-time winter Olympian HSH Prince Albert II flew in from Monaco to attend and participate in this special historic event. There were lots of activities scheduled to celebrate the occasion: Olympian school and hospital visits, Olympians breakfast with Prince Albert,