Jade Jones and Lauren Williams will battle for the biggest prize in taekwondo as they bid for the £54,000 ($70,000) jackpot in China today. The Welsh duo are among four British fighters who have reached the final of the World Grand Slam in Wuxi.

Leror Fer has urged Swansea City to send a three-points get well message to Martin Olsson by beating Sheffield Wednesday at the Liberty Stadium. Sweden defender Olsson has been ruled out for the rest of the season after rupturing his Achilles tendon at Brentford last week. It is an injury that Fer is all too familiar with after suffering the same setback earlier this year, which resulted in six months on the sidelines.

Dafydd Lockyer will make his 350th appearance for Pontypridd on Saturday with the club aiming to mark his big day with a victory. When Lockyer played his first match for Ponty in the 2002-2003 season, regional rugby was still little more than a twinkle in David Moffet’s eye. The 33-year-old centre did leave for a brief spell with Neath but then returned a decade ago, meaning Ponty’s home game with Bedwas will mark a significant milestone.

Manager Michael Flynn is intent on building ‘something special’ at Newport County, who entertain League Two leaders MK Dons this afternoon. “I really hope I’m building something special,” he says. “We kept the spine of the team together from last season and that’s why we’ve started so well this season. “One thing my players are […]

Children in Mid Wales will again be able to give sailing a go, with Brenin Adventures succeeding in becoming an RYA OnBoard Centre. Not-For-Profit operation Brenin Adventures was started at the beginning of 2018 by the management team which had run the Staylittle Outdoor Centre, which was owned and then closed by Powys County Council.

Wrexham turn from the FA Cup to an FA Trophy challenge against Boston United at the Racecourse this afternoon. The Dragons are keen to wipe away memories of their 4-0 cup defeat against Newport County in midweek by earning a convincing win against Vanarama National League North club Boston. Former Trophy winners Wrexham are focused […]

Andrew Lord’s remarkable Challenge Cup record has ended – and Devils’ head coach is fuming. Elite League champions Devils slumped to defeat and Lord described the team performance as ‘disgusting’ and added: “It makes me sick.” Lord was clearly struggling for the right words during his post-match interview, but was brutally honest. @Credit to Glasgow, […]

Wayne Pivac has admitted the Scarlets’ European campaign has been a “very disappointing” business after they suffered a fourth defeat in as many matches. The New Zealander – who will leave the region at the end of the season and prepare to take over with Wales – has conceded his team have failed in their attempts to repeat their success of last season. The Scarlets lost 30-15 against Ulster in Belfast on Friday night, completing chastening back-to-back defeats to a team not regarded as one of the pre-tournament favourites but who have still managed 10 points from two games against last season’s semi-finalists.

Hey, Deadball Guy, where are you heading this weekend? Somewhere new? What’s your featured game? The Deadballline feature game of the week. This week i take my first dip into Division 1 West Central as @waunrfc v @ystalyferarfc have my focus! Can The Waun can throw the form book out and make it tough for […]

Glasgow Clan have signed former Cardiff Devils goals ace Guillaume Doucet for the rest of this season. Canadian winger Doucet, who scored 43 goals in two seasons with Devils, is not in the Clan squad for this Challenge Cup quarter-final clash with Cardiff at the Viola Arena this evening. The 32-year-old forward joins Glasgow from […]

Merthyr Town have their Christmas Jumper trip when they travel to play Harrow Borough for an EvoStik Southern League fixture this Saturday (December 15). The Martyrs are supporting Solidarity Sports and the Non-League 4 Grenfell movement by maintaining awareness of the awful Grenfell Tower tragedy that affected so many people and has displaced many families […]

Peter Russell, a former Cardiff Devils ‘eye in the sky’, is planning a cup shocker for his former club when Glasgow Clan play at the Viola Arena on Friday (tonight, 7.30pm). Scot Russell, now in charge of Clan and Great Britain, was sent to the stands by head coach Ed Patterson in 2006 and explains: […]

Javi Gracia, Watford’s Spanish coach, says he has great respect for Neil Warnock’s Cardiff City. The Bluebirds travel to Vicarage Road for a Premier League clash with the Hornets on Saturday and Gracia says: “We respect Cardiff a lot and know they are in a better moment right now. “In all the games we have […]

Swansea golfer Jeannine Chellew has become Lady Captain at Langland Bay Golf Club just five years after joining a beginner’s scheme to take up the sport. She started in the Wales Golf programme New2Golf in a Sunday morning group at the Swansea seaside course, was bitten by the golf bug and went from taking lessons at the club to taking up full membership.

Welsh athletes’ successful cross country season continues with a quartet selected to represent Great Britain against Europe and the USA in Scotland next month. Charlotte Arter, Kris Jones, Matt Willis and Charlie Hulson will take part in the Simply Health Great Stirling Cross Country on Saturday, January 12.

Neil Warnock has called for tougher bans and government-backed action to deal with abusive behaviour at football matches.The Cardiff City manager – who takes his resurgent team to Watford on Saturday – has spoken of his revulsion at the general level of “hatred” at some matches and says he has often been a target himself. Warnock’s demand for change comes after a week of debate and soul-searching within the game following the abuse Raheem Sterling suffered at Stamford Bridge.

The rearranged Carmarthenshire Hunt Point-To-Point Steeplechases takes place at Ffos Las Racecourse on Saturday, December 22 (writes Steph Rogers). Entries for the first of the West Wales meetings are high in both quantity and quality in what promises to be a fantastic days racing. There are plenty of English raiders among those entered with Sego […]

Cardiff Met goalkeeper Will Fuller has pencilled himself in for a return to first-team in the New Year, having not yet kicked a ball this season. The 25-year-old stopper has been sidelined since last season’s play-off final when a scan a routine hip injury was revealed to be worse than expected. ” I tore my […]

Cardiff Devils step up their bid to qualify for a fifth successive Elite League Challenge Cup final when they play Glasgow Clan at home on Friday (7.30pm). Captain Jake Morissette and his Devils are 4-3 ahead against Clan after the first leg in Scotland and a big attendance is expected for what will be a […]

Cardiff Met have maintained their status as the big beasts of student rugby in Wales but coach Danny Milton has admitted they were given a scare by Cardiff University. The Met’s 34-19 victory may look comfortable enough, but their win at the Arms Park – where 3,000 fans inhaled some festive spirit of one kind of another – was anything but. Cardiff Uni proved a tough nut to crack in Wednesday night’s BUCS Super Rugby derby, but the result left one side sitting pretty at the top of the table and the other looking up at the rest from the bottom.