Jasmine Joyce will be joined by Morgan and Tom Williams in competing for Team GB in Rugby Sevens at the Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games between 21 June-2 July. Team GB have selected a squad of 178 athletes to compete at the third staging of the event, with Rugby Sevens making its debut. The winners of the men’s and women’s sevens tournaments will qualify for the Paris Olympic Games next year.

It was a chance to relax, to briefly escape the political and economic ills besetting, along with much else in British life, rugby union in Wales. A bright, warm evening completely unlike the last full international at St Helen’s, an atrociously cold and sodden encounter with Tonga in 1997.

Commonwealth champion Rosie Eccles is among three Welsh boxers – and a dozen Welsh athletes in total – who have been named in the Great Britain squad for the European Games this summer. Eccles – who won gold at last year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham – is joined by Taylor Bevan and Harris Akbar in the GB squad for Krakow in Poland.

Rhys Carre has become the fourth drop out from Wales’ 54-strong World Cup training squad in two weeks. Following on from the shock international retirements of Alun Wyn Jones, Justin Tipuric and Rhys Webb, the giant Cardiff prop has been axed by Warren Gatland ahead of the formal gathering of the full squad next week.

Ystrad Rhondda gave their outgoing head coach Dylan Jones the perfect send off by lifting the Worthington’s Mid District Cup in his final game in charge. Tries in each half in a man-of-the-match display from former Pontypridd wing Alex Webber on his return to Sardis Road, bookended a first half effort from blindside flanker Rhys Dauncey and one after the break from openside Jarrad Llewellyn, as they beat Brecon 3013 in the district showpiece. It was a fitting finale for former fly-half Jones, as he brings the curtain down on 21 years at Ystrad Rhondda – and the past 13 of those also spent coaching at the Gelligaled Park club.

There was standing room only around much of the grand old setting of St. Helen’s as Alun Wyn Jones sipped what most consider are the last drops of his summer wine. The 37-year-old is certainly in the deep winter of a career that has spanned 20 years, but there was only the joy of a bright sunny evening in Swansea as the Whites brought down the curtain on their 150th anniversary celebrations.

Chris Cooke admitted smashing a century was “not even on my radar” before he made history with a ton to inspire Glamorgan to victory at Middlesex. The wicketkeeper ensured a memorable Vitality Blast T20 triumph by striking Glamorgan’s fastest-ever century in T20 cricket off a mere 38 deliveries.

Rhys Webb has admitted stability and security for his family meant more to him than playing for Wales at a World Cup. Webb became the latest Wales player to announce his retirement from Test rugby before the tournament.

Former Boston Bruins centre-man Jamie Arniel has become the Cardiff Devils first new signing of the summer. The 33-year-old links up with the Devils having faced new coach Pete Russell in Germany’s DEL2 league last season.

Alun Wyn Jones is going to play for both teams when the Barbarians return to St Helen’s on Wednesday night (kick-off 6.30pm) to help round off his former club Swansea’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

David Brooks has been handed an emotional return to the Wales camp for next month’s Euro 2024 qualifiers against Armenia and Turkey. But while Wales head coach Rob Page was delighted to welcome back the Bournemouth playmaker, he was forced to exclude Luton Town skipper Tom Lockyer after his collapse in the Championship play-off final at Wembley on Saturday.

Jade Jones failed to reach the semi-finals at the World Taekwondo Championships in Baku. Wales’ double Olympic champion was beaten by Lo Chia-ling of Chinese Taipei in the women’s -57kg competition.

Will Vaulks will be back in the Championship next season – and gunning for revenge against Cardiff City. The former Wales midfielder was part of the Sheffield Wednesday side that clinched promotion at Wembley with a dramatic late 1-0 League One play-off final win over 10-man South Yorkshire rivals Barnsley.

David Brooks has returned to the Wales squad, 19 months after being given a cancer diagnosis and only 10 days after making his first Premier League start since his return to action. The Bournemouth fielder has been included in manager Rob Page’s squad for the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifiers against Armenia and Turkey.

Former Ospreys coach Steve Tandy has signed up with Scotland for a further three years. Assistant coach Tandy, John Dalziel and Pieter de Villiers have all followed the lead of head coach Gregor Townsend in extending their contracts until April 2026.

England’s Harry Malin shot a final round 67 to clinch the Welsh Open Youths Championship at Creigiau near Cardiff.

Glamorgan coach Mark Alleyne has told his team they need to wise up if they are going to enjoy T20 success this season. Big-hitting Tom Banton posted a high-octane half-century as Somerset comfortably beat Glamorgan by four wickets in an entertaining Vitality Blast contest at the Cooper Associates Ground in Taunton.

Nick Tompkins’ Saracens teammate Owen Farrell insists there is plenty more to come from the club after they guidied them to Gallagher Premiership glory with a 35-25 success over Sale at Twickenham. Tompkins’ victory meant the Wales centre made amends for last season’s last-gasp final defeat by Leicester to deliver his club’s first silverware since they were relegated for salary-cap breaches in 2020.

Wales will play South Korea at home in a September friendly. It will be the first time the two nations have met at senior men’s level and will take place at Cardiff City Stadium on September 7, four days before Wales’ Euro 2024 qualifier in Latvia.

Luton Town’s promotion bid hit a speed bump when Southampton prised away their beloved Welsh manager Nathan Jones earlier this season, but they have now returned the favour by taking the south-coast club’s place in the Premier League. Jones had led Luton to automatic promotion from League Two and even a Championship playoff semi-final in two spells but left in November when they were ninth, leaving Luton in a predicament.