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03 Jan

Monday, 03 January 2011
As an athlete one of the many things that I have had to endure throughout my athletic career is pain. It comes with the territory, whether it is the pain from pushing my body in the weight-room, the pain from injury or the pain of failure or defeat. As I train hard, my sights set firmly on 2012, I am finding, surprisingly, an increase in challenges I am facing due to my age - 48 years 8 months and 4 days to be exact.
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13 Apr

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
On Saturday I had my first competition of 2010 at the beautiful new track at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA. This was also the official beginning of my quest for the 2012 Olympics when I will be 50.I have competed in almost 700 competitions to date in my 38-year competitive career but this meet felt very different, very surreal.
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03 Feb

Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Last Thursday I got to talk for a few minutes on BBC Radio 5's show "London Calling". The theme of the programme was age and athletes "coming back" or trying to come back for 2012. I was the final guest for the show because I was the extreme: the athlete who will be 50 years old in 2012, an ambition I had revealed first on insidethegames last October. I was surprised by the response I received about my ambitious goal but I think I understand why people were so vocal about my goals.
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18 Oct

Sunday, 18 October 2009
As I checked my e-mails a little after 8pm on Friday evening I noticed a message in my in-box from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).  As I opened it and read it I realized this innocent looking e-mail was my official notification from the IAAF, from Pierre Weiss, IAAF General Secretary, granting my request for a change in "status".
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01 Jun

Monday, 01 June 2009 By Roald Bradstock - 1 June 2009
Last Friday was the last day for entries for the 2012 and the Arts Council's 'Artists Taking The Lead' project. For those of you that do not know this project has a budget of £5.4 million for 12 new works of commissioned art, each worth up to £500,000.
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26 May

Tuesday, 26 May 2009
By Roald Bradstock - 26 May 2009 There has been a lot of discussion about the Cultural Olympiad and its importance leading up to and during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics - getting people around the country involved in celebrating the 2012 London Games. But there isn’t any mention about the Cultural Paralympiad? You never hear of that, do you?
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07 May

By Roald Bradstock - 7 May 2009
Al Oerter winning 4 consecutive gold medals in the discus is a legendary accomplishment. Each time he competed he was never favorite to win and yet he rose up, overcoming adversity, to win again and again.  He was a true competitor - the modern day discobolus - a modern day legend whose name and achievements have become synonymous with the modern Olympics Oerter's last Olympic competition was in Mexico City in 1968 - over 40 years ago - but his Olympic journey did not end there. It continued off the field until the day he died on October 1, 2007.
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10 Apr

By Roald Bradstock - 10 April 2009 As an artist and an athlete I find the recent discussion about the "The Cultural Olympiad" and its role in the Olympics very interesting. A journalist wrote in an article recently that "it" would "be a tiny side show" to the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012. Unfortunately this is a point of view that many people may have, but what amuses me is that art and the arts is so intertwined with the Olympics that people cannot see it.
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