Lwi Edwards will move up to the Pro class and drive a unique world first Italian drift car in the British Drift Championship next season, having become Pro-Am champion in his first attempt this year. A brand new Pro Spec car will be built by Allitalia Ltd over the winter months, which the 17-year old Wrexham-born driver will race in both the British and Irish Drift Championship, plus selected European events. Having started competing aged 14 in the Formula 1000 Rally Championship, Edwards had his first taste of drifting two years later when he was treated to a day at the leading drift school, Learn2Drift, in December 2017 as a birthday present. Straight away it was clear that the teenager had an enormous amount of natural talent, and he was encouraged to continue in the sport. So much so that the following year he was invited to become an instructor with the company, contesting a few small competitions in a practice car.

Liza Burgess believes she can continue the transformation of Welsh rugby after becoming the first elected member of the Welsh Rugby Union board. The former Wales women’s captain will be elected unopposed to the post and will replace WRU director Anthony Buchanan. In 2015 the WRU co-opted businesswoman Aileen Richards to its board and Burgess will become the first woman member elected to it.

Wales Under-19 manager Rob Edwards praised the character and talent of his squad as they fought back to earn a valuable 2-2 draw in their UEFA European U19 Championship qualifying round match against Russia on Saturday. The result sets up an exciting curtain raiser to the senior team’s winner-takes-all meeting with Hungary in Cardiff on Tuesday night. The U-19s face a lunchtime clash with Kosovo in Newport, where a point will see them qualify for the elite round of the competition alongside the best sides in Europe.

Aaron Ramsey is determined to relive his best experience in football by helping Wales reach the 2020 European Championship. Ramsey played a huge role in Wales’ march to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 when the Juventus playmaker was named in the official team of the tournament. But injuries had prevented him from featuring in Euro 2020 qualifying until he came on for the final half-hour of Wales’ 2-0 win in Azerbaijan on Saturday evening.

Vastly experienced former NHL defenceman Shaone Morrisonn is set to make his Cardiff Devils debut against Fife Flyers at the Viola Arena this evening (6pm). Canadian Morrisonn, who played more 500 games in the NHL, mainly for Washington Capitals, will skate out in front of Devils fans in Cardiff Bay. Andrew Lord, Devils’ coach, described […]

Wales are on a four-year high after their 2-0 Euro Championship win against Azerbaijan and are back in Cardiff feeling positive.  That is a first European Championship qualifying away win since September 2015 (v Cyprus under Chris Coleman). Ryan Giggs and his team will finish second in group E if they beat Hungary at Cardiff […]

Newport County are without a fixture this weekend, but there is still plenty going on at the SkyBet League Two club. Striker Padraig Amond, who has scored 44 goals in 129 appearances for County, has agreed a new contract through to June 2022. The Exiles also know their opponents in the leasing.com EFL Trophy, having […]

Neil Harris has returned to the Bluebirds – 15 years after spending two weeks on loan at Ninian Park. Now he has been appointed Cardiff City manager, replacing Neil Warnock, and will start with a Championship away match at Charlton Athletic next Saturday. Essex-born Harris, aged 42, says leaving South Wales resulted in the ‘biggest […]

Dan Lydiate insists the demands of a European pool of death can shock the Ospreys into life as they start their Heineken Champions campaign at home to Munster on Saturday. Lydiate’s region have made a shocking start to their season – losing five of their opening six Guinness PRO14 fixtures. Head coach Allen Clarke admitted they were “at the bottom of the pit” after their embarrassing home defeat to lowly South African outfit the Southern Kings last weekend. But former Wales and British & Irish Lions flanker Lydiate, who will captain the side at the Liberty Stadium, insists they will get their act together for the visit of the two-time European champions in a pool that also includes Saracens and Racing 92.

Wales have secured a play-off spot for Euro 2020 qualification thanks to Friday night’s victory for Sweden over Romania in Group F. But Ryan Giggs and Jayne Ludlow are both chasing more for their teams as Graham Thomas reports. Ryan Giggs and Jayne Ludlow both believe their respective Wales teams can make it to the finals of their European Championships. The two managers are currently attempting to navigate their way through remaining qualification matches with their national teams and both claim reasons for optimism.

Marwan ElShorbagy, who plays number one for Cardiff-based Welsh Wizards, is running into sizzling form on the PSA World squash tour. Bristol-based Egyptian Marwan earned one of the most significant wins of his career earlier in Doha, Qatar when he defeated older brother Mohamed to qualify for the World Championship semi-finals. Marwan led Wizards to […]

Tom King was given a crash course in learning the Welsh national anthem after he received a mobile call from Ryan Giggs. Newport County goalkeeper King was called up alongside Wayne Hennessey and Adam Davies for Euro 2020 qualifiers against Azerbaijan in Baku on Saturday and Hungary at Cardiff City Stadium next Tuesday. The call-up […]

Wrexham Dean Keates is intent on strengthening his squad before their next National League fixture against Yeovil Town at home next weekend. “We’re working away on recruitment,” said Keates. “It’s been hard – with the FA Cup players can be cup tied, etc, but now all being well I’d like to think we might bring […]

Merthyr Town have signed former Newport County and AFC Wimbledon defender Ismail Yakubu on loan from Hayes & Yeading. Manager Gavin Williams moved to sign the Nigerian-born player because the Martyrs have been hit by a series of injuries. “To have a defender of Ismail’s experience joining Merthyr is a massive boost, especially with all […]

Osian Pryce will contest one of the world’s most famous rallies, the East African Classic Safari, having received an unexpected call to fly to Kenya and drive a Ford Escort RS1600. The Machynlleth ace has been drafted into the Minti Motorsport Oman squad at the request of team principle Joey Ghose – a gentleman who Pryce knows, having tested the very same Mark 1 for him at Walters Arena earlier this year. Co-driven by Dale Furniss, Pryce will soon be on his way to Mombasa, but will have very little time to acclimatise before the gruelling rough gravel track event gets underway on 27 November.

Ospreys duo Robyn Lock and Niamh Terry, plus Cardiff Blues wing Rebekah O’Loughlin, have been handed their first starts for Wales against Scotland on Sunday’s women’s international. The Test at Scotstoun – which is live on S4C from 3.00pm – will see Lock and Terry build on their Wales debuts against Spain earlier this month while former tennis international O’Loughlin got her first cap in the last-minute win over Ireland last Sunday. Uncapped front row forwards Molly Kelly and Sarah Lawrence are named on the bench as the coaching team continues to use the autumn reries to develop strength in depth.

As Warren Gatland tours the TV and radio studios across the UK and Ireland to promote his autobiography – discussing everything from drug suspicions to the 60-cap eligibility rule – Peter Jackson wishes another topic was being addressed: Why did Wales fail to make the World Cup final? Amid all the sentimental sop sloshing around Warren Gatland’s exit, nobody seemed willing to ask the tough question: Why did Wales fail to reach the final? Instead the nation gave the distinct impression of being preoccupied with wallowing in another hard-luck story, a national mood of sympathy as reflected on the phone-ins, acclamation for the collective heroics of the squad without anyone daring to rock the boat by asking what went wrong.

Wales’ leading darts players are to compete in the first Leighton Rees Cup to celebrate the sport and the influence of the country’s first world champion. The Petwise Leighton Rees Cup will see Wales’ top players – including the country’s world number five Gerwyn Price – do battle in Merthyr Tydfil on November 20. Premier League star and 2018 Grand Slam champion Price, former BDO world champion and Sky Sports Darts pundit Mark Webster, three-time PDC title winner Jonny Clayton and 2017 world championship semi-finalist Jamie Lewis will compete at the Penydarren Social Club.

Ashley Williams has warned Wales fans to expect something ugly when Wales try and grind out the vital Euro 2020 qualifier victory they need in Azerbaijan on Saturday. The Wales captain knows full well that events in Baku are hardly likely to make easy watching with so much at stake and admits: “I hope I’m wrong, but you can almost guarantee that the Azerbaijan game is not going to be a pretty affair. “I remember going there many years ago when we won 1-0 with a Dave Edwards goal. It’s a tricky place to get to with a long flight and it wasn’t much fun.

Sabrina Fortune dramatically claimed her first global title with the last throw of the F20 shot put competition at the World Para Athletics Championships on Thursday evening. The Deeside AC athlete made it a hat-trick of Welsh world titles at the Dubai championships so far as she followed in the footsteps of Aled Davies and Hollie Arnold, who both struck gold earlier in the week. Fortune produced her fantastic finale with a big personal best and championship record to snatch the title from the grasp of Ukraine’s Anastasiia Mysnyk.