Ben Pritchard admitted he felt deflated after failing to improve on a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in Belgrade. Swansea’s Great Britain para rower collected a second successive bronze in the PR1 men’s single sculls.

Jac Morgan will captain Wales on his World Cup debut against Fiji on Sunday – and looks certain to continue the comparisons being made with Sam Warburton. Like Warburton in 2011, Morgan is a player in his early 20s leading his country into a tournament where few fancy them to do all that well.

Connor Roberts insists it is naive to expect Wales to qualify for every major tournament. Wales have reached the last two European Championships and the 2022 World Cup after ending a 58-year wait to play at a major tournament. But making Euro 2024 in Germany next summer was seriously dented by qualifying defeats to Armenia and Turkey in June.

Neath will host their first Indigo Premiership match at The Gnoll for four years when they welcome Carmarthen Quins on Saturday. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Welsh All Blacks were the most feared team in Wales, but they slipped into the third tier – the WRU Championship – in 2019.

There is plenty of doom and gloom in Welsh rugby ahead of the Rugby World Cup kicking off in France. But why? This campaign could easily equal Wales’s best ever finish!

Rob Page insisted the game he didn’t want gave him the outcome he needed. The Wales manager saw his team keep a clean sheet in a 0-0 draw at home to South Korea in a friendly that was still fully contested.

Wales number eight Taulupe Faletau has been passed fit to play as coach Warren Gatland named an experienced side to face Fiji in their Rugby World Cup Pool C opener in Bordeaux on Sunday. Faletau, who did not feature in any warm-up fixtures, forms the back row with captain Jac Morgan and Aaron Wainwright.

Tottenham captain Son Heung-min says he cannot wait to play with £47.5million deadline-day signing Brennan Johnson. The two players could be in direct opposition on Thursday when Johnson’s Wales host Son’s South Korea in a Cardiff friendly.

When it comes to the Rugby World Cup, nobody knows it better than Warren Gatland. The Wales head coach has plenty to look forward to next month, with his 60th birthday to celebrate as well as a fifth trip to rugby’s showpiece event.

Rob Davies will bid for his fifth consecutive European title at the ITTF European Para Table Tennis Championships in Sheffield on Thursday. The Welsh star is in the final of the men’s class 1, where he will take on Endre Major of Hungary.

Rob Page says he wishes Wales were not playing a friendly against South Korea on Thursday. The Wales manager and his team are not in Euro 2024 action until Monday when they travel to Latvia for a crucial Group D qualifying clash.

Wales’ first World Cup opponents Fiji have suffered a major blow ahead of their clash on Sunday – the loss of fly-half Caleb Muntz for the entire tournament. Muntz has been ruled out of Rugby World Cup 2023 after sustaining a knee injury during the team’s training run on Monday.

Matthew Maynard has admitted County Championship promotion is now a long shot for Glamorgan after their defeat to rivals Worcestershire. The Midlands county strengthened their own grip on second place in Division Two of the LV=Insurance County Championship as they won by 80 runs at New Road.

Ethan Ampadu believes Wales will feel the benefit of his settled life at Leeds and the end of his wanderlust. Ampadu holds no regrets over leaving Chelsea this summer and heading to Elland Road after loan spells at RB Leipzig, Sheffield United, Venezia and Spezia – at the last three clubs he suffered relegation.

Taulupe Faletau has bridged a big fitness gap to put himself in contention for Wales’ World Cup opener, according to coach Warren Gatland. “He (Faletau) has been taking a full part in training for the past three weeks,” said Gatland ahead of the crunch tie against Fiji in Bordeaux on Sunday..

Ruby Evans has become the first female Welsh artistic gymnast to be named in a Great Britain squad for a senior World Championship for 17 years. The 16-year-old has been named in the GB women’s artistic team for the upcoming World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.

Aaron Ramsey has described Brennan Johnson’s potential as “scary” but admits he was unhappy to see his Wales team-mate join Tottenham on transfer deadline day. Ramsey spent 11 years in north London at Arsenal where he made 370 nearly appearances and twice scored FA Cup final-winning goals for the Gunners.

Osian Pryce reminded fans why he is the reigning British rally champion by winning the biggest and most prestigious rally in the UK – the 2023 JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion. It was the second time that the 30-year-old Machynlleth-born driver had won the close road stage event, having clinched victory there in 2019.

Wales centre Mason Grady has a tough family act to follow at his first Rugby World Cup. To gain selection for rugby union’s global spectacular just five months after your 21st birthday is no mean feat.

Brennan Johnson can handle the hype of being Harry Kane’s follow-up act – but Tottenham fans have to show patience. That’s the advice of Wales manager Rob Page, who has been down this road before with both Gareth Bale and Dan James.