Sport Wales’ new ‘Vision for Sport in Wales’ is launched today alongside a very welcome boost of £5m of new funding from the Welsh Government. A new ‘Health and Active Fund’, a partnership between Sport Wales, Welsh Government and Public Health Wales, has been set-up to support schemes over the next three years to get more people involved in physical activity.

Bobby Reid will achieve a boyhood dream when he makes his Premier League debut for Cardiff City in the new season. The boy from Bristol knows all about rivalry between his home city team, the Robins, and Cardiff’s Bluebirds. He was 10-years-old and already playing at Bristol City’s Academy when Lennie Lawrence’s team dumped their […]

Danny Ward and Kadeem Harris both scored hat-tricks in Cardiff City’s crushing 11-1 win against Bodmin Town at Priory Park in Cornwall. The Bluebirds fired seven goals during the first half with Ward (2), Harris (2), Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Josh Murphy and Bobby Reid the scorers, while Ward, Harris and Murphy added to the tally before […]

Warren Gatland has admitted he is “hugely disappointed” by Sam Warburton’s shock decision to retire from rugby. The Wales and Lions star stunned fans and fellow players on Wednesday by declaring he was walking away from the professional game at the age of 29.

Dai Sport are spending the week in Cornwall and Devon with Neil Warnock’s Cardiff City. Here is the third part of our Devon and Cornwall pre-season diary. Watch out for part four tomorrow. Neil Warnock loves a pre-season trip to Cornwall. Over the years Warnock has led Sheffield United, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds […]

Welsh distance runner Dewi Griffiths made a spectacular return to competitive running when he won the British 10K in London. Having been forced to pull out of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games earlier this year due to a stress fracture, the Swansea Harrier has been working his way back to fitness during the summer.

Two former South Wales rugby league stars met as head coaches in the opening day of the Student Home Nations tournament in Pontypridd, with Paul Emanuelli’s Wales overcoming Carl de Chenu’s Irelan,. Emanuelli scored 282 points in 77 games for South Wales Scorpions from 2014-17 whilst De Chenu starred for a season for Celtic Crusaders in 2006 scoring 22 tries in 29 matches.

THE NEW SAINTS 4 KF SHKENDIJA 0 (KF SHKENDIJA WIN 5-4 ON AGG) No team in the history of the UEFA Champions League has progressed from a 5-0 first leg deficit, but The New Saints will be wondering what might have been after almost staging a truly remarkable comeback against KF Shkendija. Scott Ruscoe’s side […]

Cardiff City produced a stunning comeback to win 4-2 in their under-23 pre-season match against St Austell at Poltair Road in Cornwall. The young Bluebirds, wearing lime green shirts and white shorts, were trailing 2-0 with less than a minute left in the first half, but they went into to break at 2-2 and quickly […]

Cardiff Devils fans have their chance to launch the 2018-19 ice hockey season in style on Friday evening. Elite League champions Devils are hosting a film premiere of the documentary on Scott Matzka called ‘MY TURN, THE FILM’. It will be shown on the big screens in the Ice Arena Wales main arena where the […]

Sam Clucas could be on his way out of Swansea City with Burnley confident they can land the midfielder for around £12m. Clucas joined the Swans from Hull City a year ago and made 29 Premier League appearances last season. But after an encouraging start, his form became inconsistent and he rarely touched the heights of his two-goal contribution to the January victory over Arsenal.

Glamorgan have confirmed the signing of Australian batsman Joe Burns for the rest of their Vitality T20 Blast campaign as a replacement for the injured Shaun Marsh. Burns will join his new teammates this week and subject to ECB registration will be available for Glamorgan’s remaining 11 T20 fixtures, starting with their contest against Somerset on Friday night at Sophia Gardens. The 28-year-old has played 14 Test matches for Australia, the last of which was in March during Australia’s tour of South Africa, where he top scored in the second innings with 42. Overall, he has hit three Test centuries with a best of 170 against New Zealand.

Dai Sport are spending the week in Cornwall and Devon with Neil Warnock’s Cardiff City. Here is the second part of our Cornish pre-season diary. Watch out for part three tomorrow. Neil Warnock is prepared to be patient in his hunt for two more Bluebirds signings. Cardiff City’s astute and experienced manager is keen on […]

Bluebirds captain Sean Morrison is back in the top flight and says: “I always believed I would play Premier League football again.” ‘Mozza’ played against Manchester United three times during 2013-14, the season after Reading had won the Championship title to go up. While Morrison and his Royals were facing the likes of Liverpool, Manchester […]

As one World Cup departs the stage, another – the Rugby World Cup Sevens – is about to begin this weekend in the USA. For Wales, this one brings back memories of arguably the most unexpected triumph in Welsh rugby history. No-one gave Wales a chance of winning the trophy back in 2009, but that’s exactly what they did. The omens were not good.

Neil Warnock admits he is facing the biggest test of his managerial career. The Bluebirds manager has achieved a record-breaking eight promotions and is leading his team into the Premier League for 2017-18. Cardiff City’s budget for the top flight is just over half of Huddersfield Town’s, who are the next lowest, and Warnock says: […]

The Bluebirds used 18 players and scored six goals in their opening first team friendly on their week-long tour to Devon and Cornwall. Only goalkeepers Alex Smithies and Brian Murphy stayed on the bench, watching Neil Etheridge complete a clean sheet. This was Neil Warnock’s ninth visit to AFC Tavistock as a manager, a second […]

Osian Pryce will contest his first ever asphalt rally in a rear-wheel drive car when he contests the SGC Printing Harry Flatters Rally on Epynt on Sunday 29 July in an Escort Mk2. The 25-year old Machynlleth-born driver has recently contested two gravel rallies in an Escort Mk2 – leading the 2WD Rally North Wales before a puncture dropped him to fourth, and setting fastest time on all five stages to win the Red Kite Stages. Co-driven by Dale Furniss, Pryce will once again drive a car supplied by Suffolk-based specialists RallyXtreme, but this time it will be a much lighter, built for asphalt, Escort Mk2 powered by a John Wilcox BDG engine, with a Kugelfischer fuel injection system. The car’s livery is similar to that used by Björn Waldegård and Ari Vatanen.

If you think Gareth Southgate has had to work under intense pressure at the football World Cup, just imagine how Gareth Baber has been feeling of late as he counts down to the days to the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco later this month (20-22 July).

Promising young Welsh sailor Rhys Lewis will be going head to head with the planet’s best when he represents Great Britain at the 2018 Youth Sailing World Championships. Lewis, 17, from Penarth, Glamorgan, will be part of a 14-strong British Youth Sailing Team at the prestigious week-long regatta taking place in Corpus Christi, Texas, from 14-21 July this year.