The British and Irish Lions have confirmed that Warren Gatland will be their coach for the tour to South Africa in 2021. Wales coach Gatland is unbeaten in two consecutive tours to Australia and New Zealand as head coach of the Lions, and following today’s appointment becomes only the second coach to lead a third tour after Sir Ian McGeechan. The 55-year-old will start as head coach on 1 August 2020, and will work exclusively with the Lions until the conclusion of the 2021 tour to South Africa 12 months later.

Liam Williams ended the season on fire for Saracens, accomplishing the kind of record in one campaign that most players don’t manage in an entire career. He makes Robin Davey’s Wales team for the World Cup opener but a big name casualty misses out. Wales’ World Cup opener against Georgia may be over three months away, but already there is a big debate about the line-up of the ‘back three.’ Basically, four into three won’t go – with Liam Williams, Leigh Halfpenny, George North and Josh Adams all bidding for a place in the side. One of them will be unlucky.

Ryan Giggs has admitted Wales now need perfection in order to realise their Euro 2020 qualification ambitions. The Wales manager was brutally frank after seeing his side suffer a damaging defeat as Group E leaders Hungary beat them 1-0 in Budapest. It leaves Wales with just three points from their opening three games and already six points behind the Hungarians who top the group.

The life of racing driver Tom Pryce, who would have turned 70-years old today, will be celebrated at the Historic Sports Car Club race meeting at Anglesey Circuit this July. The Tom Pryce Memorial Race Meeting on 13-14 July will honour the memory of a hugely popular driver who had a meteoric rise to fame and a flourishing Grand Prix career that was tragically curtailed by an accident in the 1977 South African Grand Prix. Thomas Maldwyn Pryce was born on 11 June 1949 in the small town of Denbigh in North Wales, the son of a local policeman and a district nurse. He sparked his own interest in motor racing from around the age of 10 and was later inspired by his hero Jim Clark. From school he took an apprenticeship as a tractor mechanic but had already set his heart on being a racing driver.

The seventh annual running of the Pendine Sands Hot Rod Races will take place this weekend (15-16 June), with two days of high-speed competition on the historic Carmarthenshire beach. Organised by the Vintage Hot Rod Association, racing will start each day at around 10.00 and continue for around five to six hours, with non-stop action from start to finish. Everything is determined by the tide, so times can’t be set in stone! This incredible award-winning event has fast become the most important date on the hot rod calendar, with participants coming from all over the globe to take part in the world’s fastest and most exciting beach racing competition available to traditional hot rods and customs, with speeds exceeding 120 mph.

Barry Town United and Cardiff Met face Uefa Europa League tests against teams from Northern Ireland and Luxembourg. The preliminary round draw was made in Nyon, Switzerland with 14 teams involved. Manager Gavin Chesterfield and his Barry players will face Cliftonville, while Christian Edwards’ Met students take on Luxembourg outfit Progrès Niederkorn. Barry will be home in […]

Children at 30 primary schools across South Wales will get the chance to learn golf and move on to join clubs, thanks to a new partnership between Wales Golf and PlaySports. PlaySports is a not-for-profit sports development organisation which offers a range of services delivered by professionally qualified coaches, working with schools and communities throughout South Wales.

Multi-talented Welsh distance athlete Andy Davies added a world championship silver medal to his growing and varied collection at the weekend. The mid-Wales runner was part of the Great Britain team which finished second at the IAU/ITRA Trail World Championships in Portugal.

A £50,000 fund has been launched today (11 June) to create a permanent memorial to Welsh Formula 1 driver Tom Pryce in his hometown of Denbigh. Launched on what would have been Pryce’s 70th birthday, the money will be used to erect a statue as a lasting memorial to the rising star who died in a tragic accident in the 1977 South African Grand Prix. The launch ties in with the build up to the Historic Sports Car Club’s race meeting at Anglesey (13-14 July), which will celebrate the life of the local hero. To mark the event, an original Tom Pryce painting by renowned motor sport artist Andrew Kitson will be presented to the aggregate winner of the XL Aurora Trophy races at the event.

Cardiff Athletics’ women’s team made their return to the top flight of the UK Women’s League at Leigh with a highly creditable fourth place in the season’s opening fixture.

Twelve games into the Ryan Giggs-era, it can be argued that Wales have struggled to produce full 90-minute performances under his tutelage. Saturday’s defeat to Croatia proved no different. Under the glaring Osijek afternoon sun, Wales morphed from the good, the bad and the ugly, but in reverse order, as they somehow mustered the strength to rally in the latter stages against the Croats.

Cardiff Athletics endured a difficult day overall in their British Athletics League fixture at Allianz Park in London. The Welsh team finished last out of the eight clubs competing, leaving them second from bottom in Premiership table after two fixtures.

Tesni Evans has dealt a major blow in her quest for success at the PSA World Tour Squash finals at the Mall of Arabia, Cairo. Rhyl-based Evans defeated New Zealand’s Joelle King 11-9, 7-11, 11-8 in the final women’s match of the day. “I’m really happy with that,” said 26-year-old Evans, who was beaten 11-6, […]

Seb Morris produced a sensational performance during round five of the British GT Championship, the Silverstone 500, with a superb charge through the field to finish on the podium. However, his third place hangs in the balance after his JRM-run Bentley Continental GT3 was found to be underweight (without fuel on board) and was disqualified from the results. The team is now awaiting the outcome of an appeal against the decision, which will have a huge bearing on its 2019 title bid. Wrexham-born Morris and team-mate Rick Parfitt Jnr overcame a tough qualifying session to rise through from 11th on the grid in the race. They also had to overturn a frustrating mid-race penalty, linked to a pit-stop procedure, to scythe back through the field and finish on the podium.

Swansea City plan to name Steve Cooper as their new manager within the next 48 hours. The 39-year-old England U17 World Cup-winning and former Liverpool academy chief has beaten others on the club’s shortlist that included their own academy manager, Cameron Toshack. Cooper is still currently employed by the FA and has never managed a team at senior level.

Tesni Evans, the pride of Welsh squash, is aiming to fire up her PSA World Tour Final chances at the Mall of Arabia in Cairo this evening. British and Wales champion Evans, based in North Wales, takes on New Zealand’s Joelle King in her second group clash.  Victory for 26-year-old Evans is essential after her […]

Newport County midfield player Keanu Marsh-Brown is in Guyana’s 23-man squad for their CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign. Guyana, nicknamed Golden Jaguars, have been drawn in a group alongside the United States, Trinidad & Tobago plus Panama with all those matches being played in America. “It’s and honour to be called up and we are looking […]

Wales Students head coach Paul Emanuelli has named his 20-man squad for the forthcoming Four Nations competition, which is to be played at Edinburgh University from June 22-30. His side won their final warm-up match on Sunday, a 40-22 defeat of Welsh Premier League side Rhondda Outlaws at Sardis Road, and that helped him make the difficult decision to trim his 28-man training squad down to the 20 required for the tournament.

The Red Dragon Port Talbot Darts Masters presented by Modus Darts will see Wales’ best battle it out to be crowned the king of Welsh darts. The all-Welsh line up will take place at Port Talbot’s Princess Royal Theatre on 20 June 2019.

Jess Roberts roared to her second stage win in a row at the Tour de Bretagne Feminin in France. The 20-year-old from Carmarthen followed up her triumph on stage four over Holland’s Kirsten Wild with another impressive display.