Llanelli Town and Caernarfon Town. are back in the top flight. They have earned promotion to the JD Welsh Premier League for 2018-19. Terry Phillips took an in-depth look at the Canaries earlier this week and today focuses on the Reds. Andy Hill and his Reds team have delivered the dream for Llanelli Town AFC. […]

Not even the Royal Wedding, FA Cup Final, or temperatures that peaked at 20 degrees could stop the hundreds of athletes that flocked to the third edition of the Royal Welsh Trail Running Festival, hosted as part of the Spring Festival at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells. A series of six races offered something for everyone in superb conditions, culminating in the Welsh Inter-Regional Trail Half-Marathon Championships. The youngest runners in the Toddlers 50 metre dash at the start of the day were two-and-a-half, while 81-year-old Tom Harrison earned special praise for completing the half-marathon in 2 hours, 47 minutes.

Johnny McNicholl has called for rugby to ban artificial pitches as the Scarlets soothe their wounds ahead of the weekend’s Guinness Pro 14 final in Dublin. The New Zealander was one of several players left with cuts, burns and blisters following their semi-final win over Glasgow on the plastic surface at Scotstoun. The injuries follow three recent significant career-threatening injuries suffered on artificial pitches at Glasgow, Saracens and Cardiff Blues:

Nearly 80 golfers between the ages of 6-14 made the trip to Mid Wales for the third leg of the Ping Welsh Junior Tour at Lakeside Garthmyl. The Ping Welsh Junior Tour is one of the mixed gender competitions in Wales at the younger age groups, with separate girls prizes as well, shown by Ffion Richardson of West Lancashire finishing third in the Under 8s category and moving up to second in the Order of Merit.

Graham Potter has tried to dampen speculation that he is about to be named as Swansea City’s manager. The current boss of Swedish club Ostersunds is understood to be close to being named as the successor to Carlos Carvalhal at the Liberty Stadium. The Swedish media are reporting that Potter has already agreed to take the job and that an announcement is expected to confirm his appointment on Friday, along with his assistants Billy Reid and Kyle Macaulay.

Elite League ice hockey will play on with 11 teams in 2018-19 – and there will be extra fixtures for every club. The exit of Edinburgh Capitals posed problems for League officials because, with 11 teams, they could not continue with three conferences of four teams. The three Conferences will still remain, but all league […]

Llandudno manager Iwan Williams has made the first of his summer signings with the arrival of defenders Kai Edwards and Mike Pearson from league runners-up Connah’s Quay. The arrival of Edwards, 27, and Pearson, 30, will represent something as a coup for Llandudno with the pair playing a key-role in a Connah’s Quay outfit which […]

Newport Ladies will be looking to complete the quadruple when they head to Langland Bay golf club to compete in the finals of the Welsh Ladies Team Championships. The winners for the last three years will be one of the 32 best ladies club teams in Wales and they will start as favourites with several Wales internationals in their line-up.

Great Britain will face the might of Canada and America in the World Ice Hockey Championships next year. Head coach Peter Russell and his GB team are in a group with Finland, Germany, Denmark, France, hosts Slovakia, Canada and the USA. Goaltenders Ben Bowns and Thomas Murdy plus Matthew Myers and Mark Richardson are the […]

Steve King has reminded new Cardiff Devils equipment manager Micky Kemp not to forget a crucial piece of kit. Elite League champions Devils have won back-to-back titles, lifted three trophies last season and are intent on more success. “Welcome @Kemp1990  Bring your silver polish,” tweeted King. The reaction from Kemp was: “Thank you for the […]

Manchester Storm have retired their number 22 jersey to mark the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the city. Storm, who have former Devils captain Ryan Finnerty as head coach, are major rivals to Cardiff in Elite League. They have moved to mark the anniversary of the night a suicide bomber detonated a device at […]

Non Stanford’s fight back to the top of the world triathlon tree is set to take another positive step upwards with inclusion in the British squad for the Accenture World Triathlon Mixed Relay championships in Nottingham on 7 June.

It was a definite case of ‘what might have been’ for Matt Parry and the GT Sport Motul Team RJN Nissan in round two of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup at Silverstone, despite a stellar fightback gaining the #23 car no fewer than 32 places in the course of Sunday’s three-hour race.

Established stars and exciting young talent shone brightly in the hot Midlands sun as Welsh athletes took part in the Loughborough International meeting at the weekend. Taking on strong teams from England, Scotland, Great Britain Under-20s, British Universities and Loughborough University, the Welsh team finished sixth in the overall match.

Swansea City are considering appointing a director of football to work alongside their new manager. Jaap Stam, Frank de Boer, Graham Potter and others are all options being weighed up by the club as they seek a successor to Carlos Carvalhal, who left last week. But relegation to the Championship and a poor recent recruitment record has focussed thoughts on whether the Swans should also create a new position with someone to work alongside Carvalhal’s successor.

Charlotte Arter is setting her sights on Berlin and the European Athletics Championships following her stunning weekend run in London. The 26-year-old Cardiff AAC runner made the most of the euphoria surrounding the ‘Night of the 10,000 PBs’ at Highgate as she stripped 22 seconds off her previous best to book her place in the British team for Germany in August. Arter, who ran for Team GB at the World Half Marathon championships earlier in the year, came home in third place in the 10,000 metre race in a time of 32 min, 15.71 sec to crack the qualifying time (32:30) for the August championships and move into second place on the Welsh all-time rankings.

Over 120 judoka from all over Wales took part in the competition in Tonyrefail organised by EGH Judo of Pontypridd. There was some high-quality judo on display at the competition from both the adults and children.

Two up-and-coming Welsh athletes will represent Great Britain Under-20s team at the Halle International Throws event in Germany this weekend. It will be the second time in a week Sarah Omoregie and James Tomlinson have pulled on GB vests, having been part of the junior team which took part in the Loughborough International last weekend.

Caernarfon Town and Llanelli Town are back in the top flight. They have earned promotion to the JD Welsh Premier League for 2018-19 – and Terry Phillips takes a look at the two clubs. The Canaries today, Reds tomorrow Sean Eardley and his Caernarfon Town team have firmly shoved personal and football misery behind them. […]

Ospreys head coach Allen Clarke is planning a rebuilding job at the region after admitting that in failing to make the European Champions Cup they let down their fans. In a frank assessment of how far they have fallen, the Ulsterman – who suffered at the hands of his former province on Sunday – has spoken of “putting the pieces together” after a fractured and often fractious campaign. The Ospreys would have sneaked into Europe’s top tournament had they beaten Ulster at the Kingspan Stadium. Instead, they were stuffed, 35-17, and Clarke has recognised the limpness of their efforts over the last two years – which pre-dates his arrival – by talking about returning to the Champions Cup by the “front door” rather than the play-off tradesman’s entrance which proved beyond them in Belfast.