Scott Davies will make his Grand Tour debut when he lines-up at the start of the Giro d’Italia in Bologna on Saturday. The Carmarthen-born rider has been rewarded for a fine start to his season by being included in Team Dimension Data’s line-up for the three week race.

Curtis Cup golfer Lily May Humphrys won the Welsh Ladies Open Stroke Play at Royal St David’s in Harlech, with a commanding display in tough conditions. The 17-year-old Essex golfer, who finished third in the Welsh Women’s Open last year and represented Team GB in the Youth Olympics, won by four shots with a second round 70 in strong wind giving her a lead she never lost.

Graham Potter has admitted Swansea City have some improving to do if they are to challenge for promotion from the Championship next season. The Swans manager will spend the summer further re-shaping the squad he inherited 12 months ago, with his main issue likely to be how to hang on to the club’s young talent in the face of pressure to sell. Owners Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan have issued redundancy notices throughout the club and although they were not handed to Potter and his players, the likes of Daniel James and Oli McBurnie could well leave over the coming weeks if offers come in.

Damian Cole scored his 25th rally win in his Get Connected/Energizer-backed Ford Focus WRC05 yesterday, when he won the Architexture Ltd Dixies Challenge Rally. The car had recently had an engine, turbo and transmission rebuild, so together with co-driver Paul Spooner the Abergavenny ace was using the event as a shakedown ahead of this weekend’s Masterpixel Media Manx National Rally, which is a round of the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship. It was also Cole’s 21st rally win on Epynt. Dave Willett finished a very impressive second in his red, white and yellow Ford Escort Mk2. Together with John Davies, the Wrexham driver was just 28 seconds behind Cole at the finish.

Ieuan Thomas claimed his fourth Welsh 5K title on the streets of Whitchurch in Cardiff.. The Cardiff 5K 2019 Race for Victory was won by Southend’s Adam Hickey, in a time of 14:14, but it was the Cardiff AAC man Thomas who won gold in the Welsh Championships incorporated into the race.

Munster head coach Johann van Graan has sidestepped questions over whether the Irish province are about to appoint Rob Howley as their new backs coach. Howley – who is standing down as Wales attack coach after the World Cup – is reported to be a target for Munster who want to add an extra coach to their line-up. The former Wales captain is understood to have already been interviewed for the role and van Graan has refused to deny the link.

Neil Warnock may be the last of the old school managers, but Cardiff City’s players still want him taking the register when they turn up on the first day of term next season. It will be a campaign in the Championship, following their relegation from the Premier League, but a squad left frozen in the bottom three with a game to go believe the fire and fury of their touchline warrior can warm them again. A few weeks ago, Warnock was talking openly about his desire to stay on for one more season, help the club find a successor, and then look after his garden in Cornwall.

Chris Bird flew to victory in the ABP Newport Wales Marathon as he smashed the course record. The Chichester runner triumphed in a course record time of 2 hrs, 31 min, 34 sec to win by two clear minutes from Otley AC’s Scott Harrington and strip 1 min, 44 sec off last year’s winning time. “I was three seconds outside my PB in the Brighton Marathon three weeks ago and I wish I had waited for the Newport race to try to break it,” said the 36-year-old Bird. 

Having gone through the agonies of Morecambe, Newport County manager Michael Flynn has warned his team there will be more to come against Mansfield in the play-offs. The County boss admitted he felt sick as his team struggled to gain the point they needed to keep alive their dreams of promotion to League One. Jamille Matt’s 87th minute goal finally clinched seventh spot in League Two thanks to Exeter’s inability to win at Forest Green Rovers and now Flynn is advising there will be more emotional turmoil in a two-leg semi-final.

Neil Warnock insisted he was proud of his relegated Cardiff City team, but was unable to confirm he would stay in charge at the club next season. The Bluebirds manager – who had hoped to take his side’s battle to avoid the drop to a final match at Manchester United – admitted a ruthless Palace side were simply too good for his players on a day when they had to win. But after weeks of insisting he would remain at the club to see out the final year of his contract, the 70-year-old was uncertain about his future. He would, he said, take some time to reflect and have talks with the club’s Malaysian owner Vincent Tan.

Neil Warnock admits Wilfried Zaha has the talent to condemn Cardiff City to relegation this afternoon, which would be a poor reward for the manager who helped revive the striker’s career. Warnock may end up on the receiving end if a Zaha-inspired Crystal Palace win at the Bluebirds, who host their final match of the season still seeking some kind of late campaign miracle. Only a victory can take Cardiff’s survival struggle to a final day trip to Old Trafford. Lose, and they are definitely down; draw, and they are effectively so given their inferior goal difference to Brighton.

Joe Day has beaten Leicester, gone head-to-head with Manchester City, and become the father to twin girls in what has been a season to remember. But the Newport County goalkeeper believes guiding Mike Flynn’s side into the League Two play-offs would rank right up there with anything he or his team have achieved in the last 12 months. Day and his boss Flynn were named League Two player and manager of the month for April respectively and both are targeting glory at Morecambe this afternoon.

As Wales new boys Rhys Carre and Owen Lane get ready for first caps this summer, Peter Jackson notes the looming record Alun Wyn Jones could soon achieve as he prepares for his fourth World Cup. His first World Cup ended on the western coast of France with Wales plunged into a national crisis which forced them to dig deep for a new coach. The next global tournament, in Auckland four years later, took his country to within a foot or two of the final only to fall short at Eden Park when Leigh Halfpenny’s long-distance penalty floated down under the bar instead of over it.

Wrexham 0, Eastleigh 1 after extra time Bryan Hughes is already planning a 2019-20 promotion charge after Wrexham were left devastated by a 1-0 home defeat against Eastleigh at the Racecourse. The Dragons had three efforts cleared off the Spitfires’ line, twice hit the bar and had what looked a perfectly good goal disallowed with […]

The second annual ABP Newport Wales Marathon will welcome 6,000 runners to the streets of the city on Sunday. Wales’ new national marathon left a lasting impression in its inaugural year in 2018, and will aim to build on that success on the May Day bank holiday weekend. Thousands of participants will catch running fever across the marathon, 10K and ABP Family Mile and even more spectators are set to create a festival atmosphere in the city. Here is everything you need to know about this weekend’s ABP Newport Wales Marathon and 10K.

Neil Warnock has admitted Cardiff City will have to cash in on big money offers for their players should relegation be confirmed on Saturday. Anything less than a victory at home to Crystal Palace – or a shock victory by Brighton at Arsenal on Sunday – would condemn Cardiff to an immediate return to the Championship after one season in the top flight.

Wales are battling for to finish the European Team Squash Championships on a high at Edgbaston Priory. Both men’s and women’s teams will finish outside the top four in their events and are in the 5th-8th play-offs.  British champion Tesni Evans and Wales’ women play Switzerland, while the men take on Hungary. In their final […]

Evan Mosey is coming back to Wales for his second season with Cardiff Devils. American Mosey is the second piece of head coach Andrew Lord’s 2019-20 puzzle as he joins Joey Martin on the Devils roster. “Evan is one of the fastest skaters we have seen in this league,” says Lord. “It’s a huge plus […]

Some of Wales’ top middle distance stars will be battling against each other as well as national and regional teams from across the UK on the streets of Cardiff on Sunday evening. The Cardiff 5K – Race for Victory will feature the Welsh 5K Championships and an inter-area match between teams representing Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the English regions and the Armed Forces.

Gerwyn Price’s play-off ambitions suffered a setback in what was a comfortable 8-4 win for James Wade in the Manchester leg of the Unibet Premier League. But the match was overshadowed with Price leaving the stage visibly irritated and refusing to shake hands with his opponent after a defeat that leaves him with a must win clash next week to keep his hopes alive.