Rhondda Netball are campaigning for support in their bid to win £100,000, courtesy of housebuilders Persimmon Homes. The Valleys organisation are striving for public votes to back their aim of turning young players into leaders – a mission outlined by Charlotte Slye to Graham Thomas.Charlotte Slye admits that before she got involved with Rhondda Netball, the idea of speaking to a crowd used to produce a knot in her stomach. Nowadays, you will find her coaching groups at Kings Camps in Cardiff – armed with a first class honours degree in sport and exercise science from Loughborough University in her back pocket – and about to start teacher training.

Fears are growing that rallying won’t return in Wales until the spring of 2021, unless the Welsh government allows non-spectator Covid-19 compliant trial events to take place. Some motor clubs have tried to organise experimental rallies, but optimism is turning to despair and frustration as the 30 maximum mass gatherings rule – which doesn’t apply to many other areas of indoor life, including supermarkets, pubs and restaurants – is preventing motorsport events from taking place in some of our largest outdoor arenas.

Welsh football is celebrating a rare double success after both The New Saints and Bala achieved victories in the Europa League on Thursday night. The Saints beat MSK Zilina of Slovakia 3-1, whilst Bala Town won 1-0 in Malta against Valletta. Matthew Burgess assesses the significance of both results as the clubs now prepare for the second qualifying round. The power of football never ceases to amaze and, true enough, one of the leading topics trending on Twitter last night was ‘Bala’. A couple of hours earlier, Bala Town had finally broken their European hoodoo, advancing to the second qualifying round for the first time.

Ffion Tynan kept Welsh hopes alive at the rain-hit English Women’s Amateur Championship. The Pontyclun teenager came through two tough matchplay rounds on Thursday as fellow Welsh golfers Jordan Ryan, Harriet Lockley and Darcey Harry bowed out at the West Lancashire course near Liverpool.

Scarlets speedster Tomi Lewis has been tipped as a Wales star of the future by former Dragons coach Paul Turner. The 21-year-old Wales under 20s full-back signed a new contract with the Scarlets last week and impressed under the guidance of Turner while on loan at Ampthill in the Green King IPA Championship last season. […]

Elfyn Evans will be heading to Italy earlier than planned after the Rally Italia Sardegna was moved forward by three weeks to 8 – 11 October. The request to reschedule came from event organiser Automobile Club d’Italia and was agreed by the FIA, motorsport’s governing body, and WRC Promoter following the forced cancellation of Rally Deutschland.

Cardiff Devils skipper skipper Joey Martin says he will return to the club after being given permission to play in Norway for the 2020/21 season. Martin is joining Stavanger Oilers amid the uncertainty of the forthcoming EIHL season caused by the COVID crisis. But the Canadian – one of the club’s key players for the past six years – will return for the 2021/22 season having only just signed a new two-year deal.

New Swansea City signing Jamal Lowe has claimed he was attracted by the club’s “game-changing” achievements in the Premier League. The 26-year-old winger has completed a move from Wigan for a fee believed to be around £800,000 and signed a three-year deal with an option for a fourth. He becomes the club’s third new signing of the summer after Korey Smith’s switch from Bristol City and Morgan Gibbs-White’s loan move from Wolves. The club have also managed to gain renewed loans deals for Marc Guehi from Chelsea and Nottingham Forest’s Freddie Woodman.

Bala Town and TNS will look to restore pride back into Welsh domestic football as they target a place in the Europa League. Bala travel to Malta to face Valletta in the first qualifying round tonight while TNS host Slovakian side MSK Zilina. Both clubs will be looking to put some respectability back into the […]

As businesses and unions across the UK come to terms with the prospect of limited income the man who transformed Welsh rugby has a radical plan to keep the game of rugby union alive as he outlines to Steffan Thomas. David Moffett has urged Wales and their fellow Celts to threaten to blow the Six […]

Athletes hoping to make next year’s Paralympic Games in Tokyo should be encouraged by other sports proving they can adapt in the era of coronavirus – according to Paralympic chief Andrew Parsons. With the one-year countdown to the Games starting this week, the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) President Andrew Parsons has insisted that developing a Covid-19 vaccine is not a deal-breaker for the Games to go ahead. On August 24, 2021, the Paralympic Games are set to get under way and run until September 5 while the Olympic Games are scheduled to begin on July 23 and conclude on August 8.

George Gibb admits he wore the look of an anxious man as he peered across the green at Caerleon Bowls Club earlier this summer. “It was a bit of a jungle, to be honest,” says the club’s former chairman. “We were looking out and worrying a little at the state of things, which weren’t good. Our regular contractor who maintained the green wasn’t able to do it and after a lot of rain earlier in the year, things were starting to grow very quickly.

Jordi Osei-Tutu has revealed he will be playing alongside one of his boyhood heroes when he starts his season-long loan spell at Cardiff City. The 21-year-old defender – who has moved from Arsenal to the Bluebirds to become manager Neil Harris’s second signing of the summer – is a former clubmate of Cardiff captain Sean Morrison from their time together at Reading. Osei-Tutu spent time in Reading’s academy as a teenager, when Morrison was in the Royals’ first team and said: “I was there from under nines to under 16s and whenever I watched the first team I would see Sean Morrison play.

Marchant de Lange has revealed simplicity was the key to becoming a Glamorgan record breaker. The South African paceman hit the county’s fastest ever hundred as they fought back against Northants. He hammered 113 of 78 balls to get his Glamorgan side to 261. “I’m a tail-ender so I try to keep it simple, just […]

Ryan Giggs has admitted he has no idea if Wales’ game against Finland next week – scheduled to take place in Helsinki – will actually go ahead in the Finnish capital. The Wales manager, who has named his squad for the Nations League opener, is still planning on Wales travelling to the city, even though the game may not be played there because of Finnish coronavirus quarantine rules. The game is only nine days away and no venue has yet been confirmed by UEFA, with the apparently growing possibility that it could be moved to a neutral country.

New loan signing Morgan Gibbs-White is aiming to make a similar splash at Swansea City next season to the one Rhian Brewster made in the campaign just passed. Swans head coach Steve Cooper has again mined the seam of talent he helped produce when he was in charge of the England U17 side. Midfielder Gibbs-White, 20 – who has joined on a season long loan from Wolves – was part of Cooper’s crew of 2017 that won the age-group World Cup and also included Brewster, plus two more of the club’s borrowed staff last season in Conor Gallagher and Marc Guehi.

When it comes to Welsh rugby Nigel Davies has been there and done it. The man from Trimsaran won 29 caps for Wales and represented Llanelli 498 times in arguably their most successful era. Now, Davies is on a mission to change Welsh rugby’s fortunes from the inside, as he tells Steffan Thomas. Since Nigel […]

Nuneaton was the scene of a high speed invasion from across the border on Sunday as Welsh sprinters stole the show at the Birchfield Harriers Invitational meeting. Leading the way were the capital city’s male sprinters, who won four out of the six 100m races on a blustery day at the Pingles Stadium One of the performances of the day came from Eli Onyewu, who obliterated his personal best of 11.05 to comfortably win his heat.

Elfyn Evans has walked away from an enormous accident on the South Estonia Rally, which destroyed his Toyota Yaris WRC rally car. On what was a dress rehearsal for next month’s Rally Estonia – which signals the re-start of the FIA World Rally Championship – Evans was lying fourth on the fast gravel event when he cut a corner too severely and clipped a tree stump on a very high-speed sixth gear corner. The car was thrown wide into a field, before rolling several times and coming to a halt amongst a cluster of trees.

George North has apologised to his Ospreys teammates after the red card that undermined the region’s chance of victory in their first match for five months. The Wales wing held up his hands after being dismissed just 14 minutes into Sunday’s Guinness Pro 14 clash at home to the Dragons, which ended in a 20-20 draw. It was the first red card of North’s 10-year professional career and it came after the 29-year-old, playing in his 254th professional game for club and country, sent opposite number Ashton Hewitt into a tail-spin as he clattered into him at a kick-off at the Liberty Stadium.