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Roald Bradstock is a two-time Olympic track and field athlete who competed at Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988, and is also a two-time Olympic artist, having been involved at Sydney 2000 and PyeongChang 2018.

He is a former javelin record holder and also holds dozens of other world records for throwing a variety of bizarre objects, from vinyl records and iPods to cricket balls and golf balls.

In 2000, he won the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Sports Art Competition in the painting category with a piece entitled Struggle for Perfection. His painting went on to be exhibited at The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, as part of the cultural activities ahead of the Olympic Games Sydney 2000.

Roald was a member of the IOC Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission from 2017 to 2022. In 2018, he was appointed Chair of the newly formed World Olympians Association (WOA) Art Committee, called ‘OLY Arts’.