Cory Hill has been told he has a chance to stamp his leadership on Wales this weekend when he captains the tourists against Argentina. Wales coach Warren Gatland has made Hill his skipper for the first Test versus the Pumas in San Juan on Saturday. Wales’ other co-captain for the tour – Ellis Jenkins – led Wales to victory over South Africa in Washington last week, so this will be an opportunity for Hill to show he should keep the job for the second and final Test next weekend.

Jayne Ludlow wants Wales fans to spread the fever of World Cup excitement when they face Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday night. The men’s tournament finals may be about to get underway in Russia in little more than a week – minus Wales – but Ludlow’s women have matters of their own in mind with crunch qualifiers for the 2019 competition. The Wales manager is hoping fans reflect her players’ own sense of anticipation when they turn out at the Liberty Stadium for a vital tie as they seek qualification from Group One.

Ten days on from Gareth Bale’s wonder goal for Real Madrid in the Champions League final and people around the world are still talking about Wales’ best known export. Rob Cole has been in America, where Mexicans, Armenians, Afghans and Bulgarians nod their heads appreciatively at the mention of Wales, smile, and say simply, . . . ‘Gareth Bale.’ The global impact of Wales’ greatest sporting superstar, Gareth Bale, has never been as evident as in the days since his match-winning performance in the Champions League final. ‘That goal’ went viral on every social media channel and helped to swell his Twitter following to 16.8 million and his Instagram flock to 3.3 million. But outside that often tenuous ‘virtual’ world, he has also been the talk of the real sporting public.

It was a Super Saturday for the development of Rugby League in Wales last weekend where both new young players and new referees were discovered. At the Centre for Sporting Excellence in Ystrad Mynach, 80 youngsters aged between 14 and 16, many of whom had never played rugby league before, went to open trials for the Wales under 16 side.

Rob Howley and Neil Jenkins will aim to turn back the clock almost 20 years when Wales face Argentina on Saturday. The pair – assistants to coach Warren Gatland – were part of the last Wales team to win a series against the Pumas in South America. It was 1999 when the half-backs combined behind a formidable Welsh pack to subdue Argentina after a brutal two Tests during which both packs repeatedly came to blows.

Organisers have unveiled an innovative and unpredictable route for the 2018 OVO Energy Tour of Britain which will start from Pembrey Country Park on September 2. The race, which runs until September 9, will include a team time trial for the first time, as well as a summit finish on Whinlatter Pass in Cumbria on Stage Six.

Swansea City have slashed match day tickets by one third following their relegation to the Sky Bet Championship. A day after confirming they had reached a deal with Graham Potter and his Swedish club Ostersunds for him to become their new manager, the Swans have confirmed that admission costs are to tumble. The club say they have already sold 15,000 season tickets for the new campaign following reductions and now individual prices have also been reduced – with adult prices going down from£45 (Category A) and £35 to a standard £30.

Andrew Hotham has revealed he is leaving the Cardiff Devils after four hugely successful seasons. The Ontario-born player won Defenceman of the Year every season he was with the Devils becoming a huge fans’ favourite.

Builth Wells rally ace Jason Pritchard aims to celebrate his 30th birthday on Friday by extending his lead in the Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship, as he takes a six point advantage at the top of the drivers’ standing into this weekend’s Rally van Wervik in Belgium. Co-driven by Phil Clarke, Pritchard will contest the event in his North Road Garage Ford Fiesta S2000. However, his rallying record in Belgium isn’t too good. It’s pretty bad in fact. He’s never finished an event over there, while his last outing ended in a crash on the 2011 Ypres Rally and a visit to the local hospital.

Wales is developing a highly promising group of young throwers who are starting to make their name on the international stage. A youthful Welsh team took part in a four-nation competition against Spain, Portugal and Denmark at the Encontro Internacional Under-20 and Under-23 Throws Competition in Almada Portugal, last weekend. Leading the way was 18-year-old Pembrokeshire Harrier James Tomlinson who achieved a World Junior Championship qualifying distance in the men’s discus with a new personal best of 58.57m.

It was more ‘Brawl Ricard 6 Hours’ than Paul Ricard 6 Hours for GT Sport Motul Team RJN Nissan, but another tenacious performance from Matt Parry and team-mates Lucas Ordonez and Alex Buncombe was finally rewarded with their first points of the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup campaign in the south of France.

Ryan Dixon enjoyed the biggest win of his career at the Welsh Open Youths at Wenvoe Castle near Cardiff. Letchworth’s Jack Slater was second, three shots back, with Llandudno’s Rueben Bather in third, part of a strong home challenge with Prestbury’s Matthew Delaney 5th, Aberdovey’s Connor Owen and Delamere Forest’s James Ashfield part of a group tied sixth.

There was only ever going to be one winner of the Welsh Premier League’s Manager of the Season award at the league’s annual celebratory dinner on Saturday night. Huw Griffiths was at the same event 12 months earlier having steered his newly promoted Cefn Druids side to an eighth-place finish. It had been a satisfying […]

Sardinia is a special place for Elfyn Evans, as it’s where he made his World Rally Car debut – taking an M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC to a magnificent sixth place finish in 2013. Magnificent because, while he’d done a lot of the car’s development testing, the World Rally Car was a massive step up from the Fiesta R5s and R2s he had been competing in – and Evans instantly proved that he was more than capable of handling the extra power and pressure. A lot has happened to the 29-year old from Dolgellau since then – not least becoming a World Rally winner, thanks to his victory on last year’s Wales Rally GB. And now his 2018 season is on the up too, after Evans finished second last time out on the Rally of Portugal, after a well judged and inch perfect run in the latest Fiesta WRC. Like all FIA World Rally Championship events, Rally Italia Sardegna (7-10 June) has its unique qualities – all of which make it an extremely tricky event. The narrow sandy gravel roads are lined with big rock, so sliding an inch or two off line could spell disaster. And as the WRC reaches its mid-point of the season, European summer temperatures on the Mediterranean island are also likely to be a factor, with high in-car temperatures a challenge for crews and a greater than normal stress on engines and transmissions.

Wales Students coach Paul Emanuelli has announced a 22-man squad who compete against England, Scotland and Ireland in the Student Home Nations in Pontypridd this July. The squad will be reduced to 20 just before the tournament starts, as per competition rules.

Warren Gatland has told his Wales rookies they can help Wales succeed at next year’s World Cup – even if they don’t make it into the team. The Wales coach admitted the value of last weekend’s 22-20 victory over South Africa – played out in Washington DC between two vastly under-strength sides before a meagre crowd – may not be known until September of next year. That is when Wales will be in Japan for the World Cup, by which stage the missing dozen or so players from the current tour may well be back in the starting line-up.

Wales captain Tommy Reffell admits his team can afford no slip-ups when they face Japan at the World Rugby U20 Championship on Thursday. The Leicester Tigers back rower knows that a shock defeat would halt his team’s chances of progress from Pool A following their heavy 42-10 to New Zealand at the weekend. The Baby Blacks had three players sent to the sin bin, but never appeared unduly troubled and Reffell concedes that Welsh standards slipped from their superb opening victory over Australia.

Cardiff AAC women’s team celebrated the club’s 50th anniversary in fine style on Saturday as they got their UK Women’s Athletics League First Division season off to a winning start. There was a celebratory atmosphere in the air as the club hosted the women’s fixture along with a men’s British Athletics League Premier Division match to mark 136 years of athletics in the city and the formation of Cardiff AAC in 1968.

Cardiff Amateur Athletics club celebrated its 50th anniversary on Saturday by hosting some of the biggest names in British domestic athletics. The Cardiff International Sports Campus was the venue for the club’s British Athletics League Premier Division fixture, along with a UK Women’s Athletics League Division One fixture.

Cardiff AAC celebrated its 50th anniversary on Saturday watched by the ever-youthful Lynn ‘the Leap’ Davies, one the club’s and Wales’ greatest athletes. Owen Morgan had a chat with him for Dai Sport as the current crop of athletes in the blue vest took to the track and field.