By David Williams Josh Navidi could make a return for Wales in the final two rounds of the 2022 Guinness Six Nations after being named in the Cardiff team to face Ulster in Belfast on Friday night. The flanker suffered a dislocated shoulder in early October and was originally expected to miss the entire Championship. […]

By Haydn Evans Cardiff director of rugby Dai Young, and Scarlets head coach Dwayne Peel both believe their nightmare visits to South Africa before Christmas will not be repeated. Both regions were left stranded after an outbreak of the omicron variant of Covid 19. Most of the blue and blacks’ squad were stuck in South […]

By Carl Field Wales’ best rhythmic gymnasts enjoyed success in Tartu, Estonia at the Miss Valentine Tartu Grand Prix last weekend as they continue to build towards the Commonwealth Games. Reigning Welsh senior champion Gemma Frizelle was competing in the Tartu Grand Prix, representing Great Britain. The 23-year-old, who is attached to Llanelli Rhythmic Gymnastics […]

By Hannah Blackwell Menna Fitzpatrick will not be sharing the athlete’s village with Russian or Belarusion competitors at the Winter Olympics after a dramatic about-turn by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Wales’ Paralympic champion Fitzpatrick is due to defend her slalom skiing title in Beijing when the Games starts this weekend. She would have been […]

By David Williams Wales hockey chief Kevin Johnson has said the men’s and women’s teams’ qualification for this year’s Commonwealth Games was always “a formality.” Both teams were confirmed on Wednesday as qualifiers for the Games in Birmingham, following a curious and opaque process overseen by the sport’s global governing body. Wales finished ninth in […]

By Gareth James Dewi Lake and James Ratti are living proof that community club rugby in Wales can still take a youngster from village fields to the Principality Stadium. And sometimes the transformation from childhood ambitions to living the dream can happen almost overnight. Before the current Six Nations started, few would have bet on […]

By Hannah Blackwell Joel Makin has retained his position as the eighth-best male squash player in the world after the latest global squash rankings. The Welsh star stays comfortably inside the world’s top 10 following his recent runners-up spot at the Squash On Fire Open in Washington. Makin was beaten 3-0 (11-6, 11-5, 11-5) by […]

By Haydn Evans Steve Morison insists he is not worried about the short-term nature of his contract extension announced by Cardiff City. The Bluebirds manager has been given a one-year extension to his current deal, which was due to expire at the end of the season. Morison has been in charge since October, but his […]

By David Williams Russell Martin has hailed his team’s courage in sticking to their principles following Swansea City’s much needed 2-0 victory at West Bromwich Albion. The Swans head coach had suffered a difficult time on the road, losing the three previous matches by a combined total of nine goals conceded and none scored. But […]

By Rob Carbon James Rowberry is going to resist the temptation to call his predecessor Michael Flynn and ask him how he managed to beat League Two leaders Forest Green Rovers. But the current Newport County boss has certainly been reviewing that game two weeks ago when Flynn’s new club Walsall overcame the favourites for […]

By Haydn Evans Cardiff City manager Steve Morison has commended the job England legend Wayne Rooney has done in bringing troubled Derby County back into the fight for Championship survival. But Morison says Rams will be met with “the same attitude” of defiance when they set foot onto the Cardiff City Stadium pitch on Tuesday […]

By Carl Field Benjamin Eyre and Jea Maracha were crowned as the new senior all-around champions at the Welsh Artistic Gymnastics Championships staged in Cardiff over the weekend. For 23-year-old Eyre, the triumph marks his second Welsh men’s title and comes six years on from his first. He won with an all-around score of 76.636 […]

By Paul Evans Crashing out on the final day of a FIA World Rally Championship event is the one thing drivers dread, for without the option of restarting and at the very least throwing everything at the closing Power Stage it guarantees a zero points outcome. And that’s exactly what Elfyn Evans did at Rally […]

By Gareth James Matt Grimes has apologised to Swansea City fans for his side’s recent miserable away form and has promised an improvement at West Brom on Monday night. The Swans skipper was the first to admit that the performances at Stoke and Sheffield United “were nowhere near it” in terms of what he wants […]

By Paul Jones The handling of an incident involving Wales’ Tomas Francis in Saturday’s clash with England has been criticised as a “clear and flagrant breach” of head injury assessment protocol.  Prop Francis sustained a head injury in the 20th minute of the Six Nations contest at Twickenham in which Wales suffered a 23-19 defeat […]

By Owen Morgan Welsh athletes enjoyed a gold rush of medals on the second day of the UK Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Sunday. Bethan Davies, Hannah Brier and Piers Copeland led the way by claiming UK titles in the 3,000m race walk, 200m and 1500m respectively. Meanwhile, there were bronze medals for Lauren […]

By Gareth James Cardiff City manager Steve Morison accused his Fulham counterpart Marco Silva of “kicking off” over an alleged elbow incident involving Bluebirds defender Perry Ng. The clash between the players came near the end of Cardiff’s 1-0 home defeat to the Championship leaders. Morison praised his players for their resolve and determination against […]

By Steffan Thomas Wayne Pivac has praised Alex Cuthbert as a bright light amid the gloom of a frustrating defeat for Wales against England at Twickenham. The Wales coach caused a stir when he left out Louis Rees-Zammit in favour of Cuthbert, but the Ospreys wing was his side’s most effective line-breaker in a game […]

There was medal success on the track and in the field for Welsh athletes on the first day of the British Athletics Championships on Saturday. Sprinter Jeremiah Azu and shot putter Patrick Swan both produced personal best performances on their way to bronze medals in Birmingham.

James Hunt breezed to a hat-trick of Welsh Cross Country men’s titles at a windy Pembrey Country Park on Saturday, while Lauren Cooper claimed her first women’s gold at the championships. The 117th running of the George Crump MBE memorial event attracted hundreds of entries of all ages from all over Wales.