Wrexham-born Vicky Lea, who was in the first-ever Wales Women’s rugby league squad, has been selected for the United Kingdom Armed Forces training squad for the 2021 Armed Forces Rugby League World Cup. The 29-year old starred as prop in both of Wales’ matches in 2019, the second being the historic win over England Lions in Leigh, and now she has another chance to make history by competing in the inaugural Women’s Armed Forces Rugby League World Cup.

Cardiff Metropolitan University students past and present have been named in the Great Britain squad for the World Half Marathon Championships in Poland later this month. Former Met student Josh Griffiths will win his first GB vest in almost three years, while Jake Smith will be making his senior debut having made his British track debut at last year’s European Under-23 Championships in Gävle, Sweden.

Callum Sheedy has opened the door to an approach from Wales as Wayne Pivac considers his options at No.10 against England at Twickenham this weekend. Sheedy played a leading for Bristol on Sunday, guiding them to their first victory at rivals Bath for 14 years. His contribution was timely as well as significant as Pivac considers the injury crisis at outside-half that threatens to deny him of his four first-choice picks in a pivotal position.

Bluebirds manager Neil Harris watched striker Isaac Vassell suffer on his return to playing action at Cardiff International Sports Stadium. Vassell, who hasn’t played a first team match since August limped off after 24 minutes of Cardiff’s 3-1 Professional Under-23 Development League win against Watford. Vassell was running onto a Brad Smith pass when he […]

Cardiff student Jake Smith booked an automatic place in the Great Britain team for the World Half Marathon Championships with a brilliant run at the Vitality Big Half in London on St David’s Day. Bermuda-born Smith, who has spoken of the possibility of running for Wales in future, finished third behind by legendary Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele, who broke the course record, and British Olympian Chris Thompson. The Cardiff Metropolitan University student Smith crossed the line in 62:00, taking two seconds off his own British under-23 record.

The great London Welsh revival is continuing under Cai Griffiths and the Exiles are now only two wins away from clinching a third promotion in their long fight back to return to their former glories. A thumping 50-7 win over Hackney was their 32nd straight victory at home since they were thrown out of the Championship after going into liquidation under a mountain of debts brought on during a troubled time in the Premiership and a fateful move to the Kassam Stadium, in Oxford. They found themselves relegated nine divisions to Herts/Middlesex 1 three years ago, taking over the lowly position in which their amateur side were playing.

The streets of south Manchester hosted an impromptu St David’s Day celebration on Sunday as Cardiff’s James Hunt led a Welsh clean sweep at the Trafford 10k. The Cardiff Athletics man followed up his Welsh Cross Country Championship win last weekend, by breaking the tape in 29.45. On a great day for Welsh endurance running in the North West of England, Hunt was joined in the podium places by fellow Welshmen Andy Davies and Rowan Axe, while Rob Samuel finished sixth.

Elinor Barker admitted she was seeing stars through fatigue after she rode to the rescue of British cycling on Sunday. The Welsh rider underlined his status as a gold medal Olympic contender for Tokyo later this year as she delivered a sensational ride in the points race on the final day of the world championships in Berlin. Great Britain had endured a worrying championships, seen as a dress rehearsal for this year’s Tokyo Olympics, with only three medals, none gold, over the first four days, leaving them 10th in the medals table.

Brentford boss Thomas Frank has claimed Cardiff City’s Will Vaulks should have been sent off for a foul “that left a hole in the ground.” The Bluebirds and Wales midfielder was criticised by Frank who also took a swipe at the officials during his team’s 2-2 draw at Cardiff City Stadium. Cardiff manager Neil Harris was unimpressed by referee Simon Hooper as well after a result that left both clubs frustrated and Harris’s side still five points adrift of the play-offs.

Wales’ Jay Harris felt he may have earned a draw but the judges gave the verdict the other way as he failed to successfully challenge Julio Cesar Martinez for the WBC flyweight title in Texas. The Swansea fighter lost by unanimous decision in a gripping fight as his spirited performance was not enough to claim the title from Martinez on Saturday night. “Obviously I am very, very disappointed, but I can take a lot from this,” said Harris.

Steve Cooper has insisted his Swansea City side will come back stronger after their “gut-wrenching” loss of two precious promotion-chasing points at Blackburn Rovers. For the second successive match, the Swans conceded a significant goal in injury time as they surrendered the lead to draw 2-2 at Ewood Park. Three days after losing to an injury time goal at Fulham, a deflected strike gave Rovers an equaliser in the 95th minute to leave Cooper’s side four points adrift of the play-offs, instead of the two points they would have been had they held out.

Dan Biggar is set to miss the rest of the Six Nations and may struggle to return this season after suffering a knee injury playing for Northampton. The injury was initially described as “not serious” by Saints coach Chris Boyd, but club sources have since admitted that Biggar has sustained significant damage and will be sidelined for “several weeks”. That would put the 30-year-old out of next week’s game against England at Twickenham and the final round of the Six Nations at home to Scotland on March 14.

The Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon has been awarded the prestigious World Athletics Gold Road Race Label. The accolade recognised the event’s level of excellence in organisation and its established reputation for attracting a world class field of international athletes. The label is the highest level of recognition awarded to half marathons within World Athletics’ Label programme.

Cardiff Met athletes Joe Brier and Piers Copeland have dreams to race at the Olympic Games – but admit it is more likely to be at Paris in 2024 than this year in Tokyo. The students both underlined their growing stature on the track with impressive performances at last week’s British Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Brier finished second in the 400m and Brier was third in the 800m after indoor seasons that have been disrupted following the postponement of the World Indoor Championships in China – scheduled for next month – because of the spread of coronavirus.

Elinor Barker insists there is more to come from Great Britain’s women’s team pursuit squad after they took silver at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin. Wales’ Olympic champion was part of a foursome who finished second in the final against the USA, after being the second fastest team in qualifying. As the countdown to the Olympic Games in Tokyo continues, Barker said: “Qualifying was really positive. It was definitely the highlight for us and the happiest I’ve felt about the team pursuit in a long time.

Three games into the Six Nations and Wales have just one victory to show for their efforts. Robin Davey says the bold ambitions of coach Wayne Pivac are being undermined by his own selection calls and a misfiring team. It’s early days, but for new head coach Wayne Pivac to declare Wales are heading in the right direction after successive Six Nations defeats at the hands of Ireland and France is, well . . .  let’s’ be charitable and say inadvisable. Some might describe it as plain daft especially as no matter what controversial decisions there may have been by the referee, France were clearly the better side.

Cardiff City striker Danny Williams, aged 21, has joined Southern League Merthyr Town on loan until the end of this season. The former Wales Colleges captain links up with Bluebirds fan Gavin Williams, who is the Martyrs manager. Williams has been with Cardiff for just over a year since being signed from Welsh League Haverfordwest […]

Wales send their under-21 netball squad to the Isle of Man this weekend for two matches against teams from Manx. Under 21 head coach Nikki Lloyd said: “This is a valuable opportunity for us to expose a group from our long squad to all aspects of international competition away from home in a World Youth […]

Cardiff will host three American Football games crammed into almost as many hours when Wales’ only women’s gridiron team stages its second ever tournament. The Cardiff Valkyries host the Cheshire Bears and Leicester Falcons in the final regional tournament of the season at the Cardiff International Sports Campus in Leckwith on Saturday, February 29.  The Valkyries will face their guests in two full contact 30-minute, seven V seven games on a shortened pitch in the British American Football Association (BAFA) Division Two North Sapphire series. 

Richard Merriman will attempt to win the JD Tyres Welsh Tarmacadam Rally Championship title for a fifth time this year, as he returns to the series in his Vauxhall-engined Darrian T90. Together with co-driver Kath Curzon, the Pontypridd driver enjoyed another great season 2019, winning his class on the Tour of Epynt, Tour of Caerwent, SMC Stages, Harry Flatters Rally and the Fairfield Merlin Stages at Pembrey. Merriman only failed to finish one event, crashing into a concrete post in the German Village during the Mewla Rally, but he bounced back to retain his title.