Long-serving and popular Wales RL senior side team manager Bob Wilson has stepped down from his position to spend more time with his family.

Almost 12 months to the day after dramatically collapsing at the same event, Welsh athlete Jade Williams was happy to be back competing at the British Championships having been given a clean bill of health. The Amman Valley Harrier was taking part in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase at the Alexander Stadium last July when she started blacking out during the first couple of laps.

It might be Osian Pryce’s small local event, and he might be seeded at number four in the expert class, but this Saturday’s Rali Dyffryn Twymyn will be something completely different for him and co-driver Dale Furniss, as they tackle the rally in their Fiesta ST. The Dovey Valley Motor Club organised event will start and finish in Machynlleth and consist of a compact route of 55 miles, where over 35% of the total mileage will be competitive. All the driving skills tests and challenges will take place on private land, and it’s a big social event too, with a post-event party. This is the third running of the Rali Dyffryn Twymyn, and it’s attracted a strong 74-car field.

Bala Town manager Colin Caton says he team will attack from the off as his side look to overturn a three-goal deficit in Thursday night’s home leg against (6.30). The Lakesiders collapsed to a disappointing 3-0 defeat in San Marino last week and a preliminary round exit from the Europa League will be considered as […]

Huw Griffiths is plotting away yet another upset in what has been a remarkable twelve months for Welsh football’s oldest club Cefn Druids. Few expected Cefn Druids to avoid the Welsh Premier League’s relegation battle last season, and even fewer then expected them to go on and win the league’s Europa League Play-Off final. Now, […]

World Junior Championship-bound 400m runner Joe Brier has praised the work put in by coach Matt Elias to help him gain selection for the Great Britain team. Brier is one of three Welsh athletes heading for the event in Finland this weekend. He will be joined by Cardiff AAC 1500m runner Jake Heyward and discus thrower James Tomlinson, of Pembrokeshire Harriers.

Competitors at this year’s Aberdare Park Road Races will be the first to experience an improved track on which to race with the news that the organisers, Aberaman Motorcycle Club, have secured funding to resurface the circuit in advance of this year’s meeting on July 21/22. The park, located just half a mile from the centre of Aberdare, first hosted motorcycle racing in 1950 and has since welcomed many of the greatest names in the sport. The late John Surtees took his first ever motorcycle race win there in 1952 when he was aged just 18. In 1955 it hosted the first motorcycle race meeting ever to be televised live while other legendary names to have raced at the park include Mike Hailwood, Phil Read and Bob McIntyre. In 1988, Carl Fogarty set a new outright lap record for the one mile circuit.

Alys Thomas warmed up for her assault on the European title when she picked up a bronze medal at the Sette Colli Meet in Rome. The Commonwealth Games gold medallist will be among the favourites going into the European Championships in Glasgow following her record breaking swim in the 200 butterfly at Gold Coast. Her winning time in April was a sensational 2.05.45, while she came home third last weekend in a more modest 2.08.26.

Steve Cram has described Welsh teenage middle distance prospect Jake Heyward as a “championship runner” who has the potential to make it to the top of his sport. There can be few greater judges of middle distance running than the former 1500m and mile world record holder turned BBC television commentator.

Welshman James Williams and English co-driver Ross Whittock are the first recipients of a test with Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing in the latest specification Hyundai i20 R5, their prize for leading the Prestone MSA Motorsport News Junior British Rally Championship after the opening two rounds. The prizes, which are supported by Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing, will offer two successful crews a chance to join the manufacturer for a day-long test in southern Europe. The winners will sample the latest i20 R5 from the Korean firm – a four-wheel-drive machine all of the junior competitors will be hoping to step into, in the coming years.

The former Wales Rugby League board member Martin Roscommon Roddy MBE sadly passed away on Monday night aged 63 following a 20-month battle with cancer. His wife Tessa made the following announcement early on Wednesday morning…

Welsh oarsman Graeme Thomas will get some vital practice ahead of this year’s European and World Championships when he chases more World Cup glory in the quadruple sculls at Lucerne (13-15 July). Thomas joined forces with John Collins, Jonny Walton and Cardiff University alumni Tom Barras to strike gold in the opening World Cup event in Belgrade this summer and will be among the favourites to add a second in round three.

Rhys Enoch has earned his ticket to the 147th Open Golf championships at Carnoustie after finishing third at the final qualifying event at Notts (Hollinwell) golf course. The Cardiff-based Enoch carded a two under par 142 over the two rounds to squeeze into golf’s greatest event for only the second time in his career. English duo Ashton Turner (-6) and Oliver Gibson (-3) took the other places.

Cardiff Blues have made their second signing in a week by recruiting Jason Harries from Edinburgh. The former Wales Under-18s, 20s and Sevens international follows the switch of tight-head prop Dmitri Arhip from the Ospreys. Harries was signed by Richard Cockerill last summer on a one-year contract, having scored 22 tries in 45 appearances for London Scottish.

Tom Llewellin, the 17-year old son of double British Rally Champion Dai Llewellin, will make his forestry rally debut on the Nicky Grist Stages (Saturday 14 July), driving a 1.6-litre Suzuki Swift Sport. The Pembrokeshire teenager will follow in the wheel tracks of not only his father, who contest the event in the 1980s, but also his brother Ben Llewellin – who, as well as being an Olympic and Commonwealth Games medal winning Men’s skeet shooter, is no mean rally driver either, having contested the Nicky Grist Stages in 2015 in an Escort Mk2. Tom might be the youngest rallying member of the Llewellin family, but he’s already gained a lot of experience behind the steering wheel, having rallied for the past three years in the all-asphalt Junior 1000 Championship, winning the last two rallies he did. He also won the MSA Junior Rallycross Championship title last year, and is driving a Peter Gwynne Motorsport Suzuki in this year’s Swift Sport Rallycross Championship.

Luke Rowe will complete his incredible comeback from a career-threatening injury when he lines up at the Tour de France start on Saturday. The Cardiff-born rider was warned he could be out for at least a year when he shattered his right leg in 20 places in a freak accident last August.

Non Stanford has been named in Britain’s team for the European Triathlon Championships in Glasgow. The 29-year-old from Swansea will be one of the main contenders for the title at the multi sport Games which start on August 2.

Left-back Joe Bennett has committed to Cardiff City until 2021 and says: “We are going to enjoy ourselves in the Premier League.” Former Middlesbrough and Aston Villa defender Bennett made 41 appearances for the Bluebirds last season and says: “I’m really happy. “It got sorted out very quickly, so now I can just concentrate on […]

All the headlines in Welsh table tennis this year have been grabbed by the now 12-year-old Anna Hursey for qualifying for the Commonwealth Games, but take a bow Wales No 1 Charlotte Carey for breaking the mould. There may be no doubting the huge potential of Hursey, but Carey has just made history by becoming the first Welsh woman player to reach the top 100 in the world rankings in the current era.

Geraint Thomas ought to be on the podium at the end of this year’s Tour de France, but it will be Team Sky who decide on which step he will be standing. That is the view of Welsh professional cyclist Gruff Lewis, who will be part of the Seiclo commentary team bringing live coverage and highlights from every day of this year’s Tour on S4C, starting on Saturday 7 July.