She already has one Uefa Women’s Champions League winners’ medal, but Jess Fishlock doesn’t really count that one. But now the 31-year-old Welsh midfield star is on course to earn the biggest gong of her incredible, globe-trotting career after helping to steer the reigning champions Lyon into the semi-finals of this year’s tournament.

Laura Deas’ reign as Wales’ first Winter Olympic medalist has been short-lived after the International Olympic Committee confirmed that Britain’s four-man bobsleigh quartet from the 2014 Sochi Games have officially been upgraded to the bronze medal. Deas slid her way to a bronze medal in the skeleton in Pyeongchang, South Korea, last year to become the first Welsh athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. But that historic achievement has now been matched by Bruce Tasker.

It’s that annual Welsh rugby tradition – Armchair Weekend – when supporters of the four Welsh regions grab a beer, slump in front of the box, and watch the European knockout stages featuring teams from Ireland, Scotland, England and France. Robin Davey says the full house Celtic contingent this season makes the Welsh absence even more embarrassing. Wales may have won the Grand Slam and the nation is still recovering from the celebrations, but back down on earth professional rugby carries on without almost the entire Six Nations squad. It’s all about Europe – not the Brexit variety – but the quarter-finals of the Heineken Champions and Challenge Cup competitions. And there is not a Welsh team in sight.

Coventry Blaze 2, Belfast Giants 7 Title chasers Belfast Giants kept the pressure up on league leaders Cardiff Devils by winning their game in hand this evening live on FreeSports. An explosive opening period from the visitors saw them head in to the first break four goals ahead at the Skydome. Patrick Dwyer scored Giants’ […]

Welsh athletes Jenny Nesbitt and Matt Willis are hoping a “tough” IAAF Mikeller World Cross Country Championships will suit the Great Britain team down to the ground. The general consensus is that the course for this Saturday’s event in Aarhus, Denmark, will be a genuine test of cross country skills with plenty of twists, turns, lumps and bumps.

The great London Welsh revival has gathered a pretty strong head of steam and the long climb up the league ladder from bottom back to the top will reach the second rung this weekend if they can clinch a single point at Old Deer Park. Given they smashed the league record with an amazing 113-0 win over Vermulians last weekend, in a game that was shortened due to their dominance, it looks pretty certain they will complete their mission, and second successive promotion, against a Cheshunt side currently sitting in eighth place in the league.

This year’s Wales Rally GB (3-6 October) will have a vibrant new home right in the heart of Llandudno on the coast of north Wales. With enthusiastic support from Conwy County Borough Council, the popular resort town has been a regular feature in recent years by hosting official Ceremonial Starts and Finishes. Moreover, its seaside streets made history last October when, for the very first time on the British mainland, fans witnessed the spectacle of World Championship motor sport action on closed public roads.

Belfast Giants, the only challengers to Cardiff Devils for the Elite League title, travel to Coventry Blaze for a crunch match this evening (Wednesday). Devils coach Andrew Lord and his players, though, won’t be focused on events at the Skydome in Coventry. Cardiff remain in control of their own destiny and know that if they […]

Pontypool, the champions of the WRU National Championship, will meet Merthyr, last season’s Principality Premiership and Cup winners, in the semi-finals of the WRU National Cup. Pontypool extended their unbeaten run in league and cup to an amazing 18 matches this season with an extra time triumph over Bridgend in last weekend’s quarter-finals to reach the last four of the cup competition for the first time since 1991. The 21-11 win over the Ravens came on top of a 12-9 victory at Pandy Park over Cross Keys in Round 2. Now, Pooler will be aiming to make it a hat-trick of Premiership scalps as they aim to reach their first final in 28 years and stay on course to lift the cup for the first time since 1983.

Bradley Gibbs, who rode three winners at the Brecon & Talybont Hunt Point-To-Point Steeplechases, took his season’s total of wins to 13 with a first at the Teme Valley & United Pack meeting. Gibbs was on board the Pip Hooley trained Ertidaad at Brampton Bryan in North Herefordshire. Ertidaad owner John Chinn was not able […]

Penarth Hockey Club’s 1st XI came up empty-handed in their pursuit of a fourth successive promotion in the Verde Recreo League, missing out on a spot in UK hockey’s National League as a result. Team Bath Buccs 4-2 PENARTH The 1st XI began the week still in with a shout of promotion, but ultimately travelled to Bath for their last league game of the season knowing that the fixture was effectively a dead rubber with results elsewhere ensuring that neither side was a candidate for promotion or relegation.

Tania Hoffman believes the Celtic Dragons are reaping the rewards of their fresh start as they claimed their first home victory of the season. The Dragons coach watched her team beat London Pulse 62-51 at the Sport Wales National Centre on Monday night – their fourth victory of the season. It means in little more than half a campaign, Hoffman’s side have earned as many wins as they did in the previous two years – a measure of the progress they have made in what the New Zealander has claimed was almost a complete rebuilding programme.

The 2019 ABP Newport Wales Marathon will be beamed to televisions and devices across the globe. English and Welsh highlights programmes will showcase the second instalment of Wales’ premier marathon event on Welsh, nationwide UK and international television – putting Newport’s recently regenerated city-centre and the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside firmly in the spotlight

Elfyn Evans heads into this weekend’s Tour of Corsica with a lot of confidence. It’s the event where he led a round of the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time, he’s always gone well there and it follows a podium finish in Mexico. At long last, things are most certainly looking up! Corsica is one of the most technical rounds of the WRC, as road condition and surface temperature change as the long stages twist and turn there way around the mountainous Mediterranean island. The event has a long history in the sport, and it’s gained the nickname of The Rally of 10,000 Corners for good reason. Maybe it’s driving the legendary Welsh rural mountain roads, like the Abergwesyn Pass, in his youth that has fine-tuned Evans’ asphalt driving technique, but whatever it is the 30-year old from Dolgellau has always been on top form in Corsica – finishing a career best second in 2015.

Daniel James has yet to sign a new contract with Swansea City but is happy to let his football attract admirers from wider afield. The Wales hero is still in discussions with his current club, but any deal will not reduce the likelihood of the Swans deciding to sell him for anything up to £20m this summer. The winger’s value is rising steeply after Premier League clubs were given more evidence of his talent when he struck a superb winner as Wales opened their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a 1-0 win over Slovakia in Cardiff on Sunday.

The young Bluebirds suffered a first defeat in five Professional Development under-23 League fixtures when they were beaten 3-1 by a strong Crewe Alexandra side. All three Alex goals at Cardiff International Sports Campus were scored within the opening 10 minutes of the game.  Coach Jarred Harvey made five changes to the starting line-up for Cardiff’s […]

 The Deadballine Guy went to watch Burry Port Ladies v Swansea Women in the quarter-final of the Welsh Cup at the weekend. Rival’s on the field, friends off it! Great picture that underlines what rugby is all about – respect! Or as they said ‘This be class for What’s App banter’ 👏👏@burryportladies @SwanseaRFCWomen @waleswomenrugby @WRUWomenSupport […]

Nicola Phillips has enjoyed a memorable 12 months – starting with her role as Chef de Mission for Wales’ Commonwealth Games team in 2018 and more recently being awarded an MBE. Professor in physiotherapy at Cardiff University, she is also a board member of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD). This in an interview she recently gave to […]

West Wales motorsports squad Spencer Sport has started the 2019 Toyo Tires British Rallycross Championship is style, with victory in the opening round of the season at Silverstone. Julian Godfrey, driving the Penrhiwllan-based team’s Mitsubishi Mirage RX Supercar, won all three Heats and the Final to clinch a dominant victory. Starting from the middle of the front row for the first Heat, Godfrey reacted well to the lights and using the superlative traction of the Mirage to his advantage, led the pack into the opening corner. It was an advantage he was never to lose and after four laps he went on to cross the line nearly two-seconds ahead of his closest rival, Derek Tohill in a Fiesta.

Axed Wales captain Ashley Williams has admitted the new broom are ready to sweep in and carry Wales to Euro 2020. Williams – currently struggling for game time at Stoke City – has confessed he felt frustrated at being left out of Wales’ opening qualifier against Slovakia on Sunday. But after coming on during the second half of the 1-0 victory, the 34-year-old central defender suggested a wind of change has blown through Ryan Giggs’ squad since he led the team to the semi-finals of Euro 2016.