Elfyn Evans is looking to kick-start his 2018 FIA World Rally Championship season in Mexico this weekend – and having twice finished fourth (2014 and 2015) there, the 29-year old Dolgellau driver will be looking to better that and challenge for a top-three podium result.

Curtis Matthews is off to the Gold Coast next month after Seren Bundy-Davies lost her battle to compete for Team Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Decathlete Matthews will take the place created by Bundy-Davies’s withdrawl and will compete at his second Commonwealth Games. Rio Olympic 400 metre runner Bundy-Davies, who achieved a qualifying standard for the Glasgow Games in 2014 a week too late, had been granted special dispensation to prove here fitness and reach the ‘A’ Standard for the Gold Coast by this month.

Neil Warnock is loving life in charge of Cardiff City and says their achievements so far are ‘little short of miraculous’. The Bluebirds are second in the Championship ahead of back-to-back home fixtures against Barnsley on Tuesday (7.45pm) and Birmingham City on Saturday (3pm). Both are in the bottom four and six points would put […]

Andrew Lord believes Cardiff Devils defeat in the Challenge Cup final can ‘fuel and motivate’ the team over the final month of this season. Elite League leaders Devils were visibly shocked by their 6-3 defeat against Belfast Giants in the final at Ice Arena Wales. Belfast coach Adam Keefe and his players lifted the trophy […]

Luke Wall and Yves Zama both scored hat-tricks for Bangor City in their crushing 7-0 JD Sports Welsh Cup victory against Penydarren BGC. South Wales Alliance club Penydarren suffered their first defeat of 2017-18 in league or cups. Bangor were clinical with their finishing and moved comfortably into the semi-finals, while Penydarren can reflect with pride […]

Former Cardiff Devils forward Matt Towe has proved a real pain to his former club this season. Sheffield-born Towe, who spent three seasons with Cardiff, has scored four goals for Belfast in 2017-18 and three of those have been against Devils. He was man of the match, returning a goal and two assists, during Belfast’s stunning […]

Welsh golfers Lydia Hall and Amy Boulden plundered more than £10,000 in prize money from four events on the recent Ladies European Tour trip to Australia. Now, Hall will be heading to South Africa to play at the South African Open at the Westlake Golf Club in Cape Town between 8-10 March. She will then team up with Boulden and Becky Brewerton for an assault on the Lalla Meryem Cup at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Tanzania next month. Hall finished three shots off the lead in the New South Wales Open this weekend to finish tied in fifth place at Coffs Harbour Golf Club. The title went to England’s Meghan MacLaren, who held onto her overnight lead to claim her first Ladies European Tour title.

Non Stanford has been given the green light to continue focussing on the Commonwealth Games Triathlon after a crash in Abu Dhabi. The Team Wales captain for the Games in Australia next month injured her wrist in the fall in the World Series opener on Friday.

Cricket Wales has appointed Matt Thompson as their new Talent Programme Manager. An ECB Level 3 Performance Coach, Thompson will start work on 3 April.

Chloe Tutton made it two gold medals at the British Swimming Championships in Edinburgh as she followed her 100 metre breaststroke success with a second success over 200 metres.

Cardiff Devils owner Steve King launched cup final day at Ice Arena Wales with the words: “Let’s blow the roof off.” King and his fellow owners – Brian Parker, Craig Shoshtack and Kelly Hughes – plus families and friends arrived in Cardiff on Friday and joined a 25-strong Challenge Cup celebration around the city. They […]

Penydarren BGC have muscled in on a JD Sports Welsh Cup party. Manager Kerry Mullin and his team from the fifth tier of Welsh football have achieved astonishing success this season and this afternoon Penydarren face ‘the biggest match in their club’s history.’ They play Bangor City at Nantporth in North Wales and hundreds of […]

Carlos Carvalhal believes he has formed a band of brothers who are marching Swansea City towards Premier League safety. The Swansea manager refused to single out any players for individual praise after watching his team thrash West Ham 4-1 on Saturday to record their seventh successive home victory in all competitions.

Elinor Barker will miss today’s madison at the World Track Championships in Holland after crashing in Friday’s omnium.

Busy Caryl Jones juggles farming, accountancy and clocking up the miles in trainingas as she gets ready to run for Wales in the Commonwealth Games marathon. But as she tells Dai Sport’s athletics writer, Owen Morgan, she would have it no other way.

Wales Rugby League have appointed the very experienced Paul Chambers as their new National Development Manager, replacing Idris Evans who left the post late last year.

Carlos Carvalhal intends to repeat the outcome of his last clash against David Moyes on Saturday – and move Swansea City back out of the relegation zone. Carvalhal’s Swans host West Ham at a snow-free Liberty Stadium where the game will be a re-match between the Portuguese manager and Moyes after their two previous encounters. That was in 2010 when Carvalhal’s Sporting Lisbon knocked Moyes’ Everton out of the Europa League – winning 4-2 on aggregate, with a 3-0 home win for Sporting following a 2-1 defeat at Goodison Park.

Olympian Chloe Tutton led the Welsh medal charge on day two of the Edinburgh International swimming meet as she picked up the British title in the 100m breaststroke. Despite being beaten by Spain’s multi-medalist, Jessica Vall, the 21-year-old Tutton was too good for British team mate, and Commonwealth Games rival, Siobhan O’Connor, who finished fourth.

Dragons captain Lewis Evans has warned his players will hear some home truths after admitting they “capitulated” yet again away from home. The No.8 was reflecting on another hammering for the region after they were crushed 45-13 by the worst team in the Guinness Pro14, the Southern Kings. The South Africans – a team without a win all season before Friday’s fixture in Port Elizabeth and who have appeared a shambles in most of their games against the Welsh regions – ran in six tries to make it 12 games without a victory for coach Bernard Jackman’s team who last experienced victory way back in September.

Non Stanford went from joy to agony after crashing in the World Series Triathlon opener in Abu Dhabi. Just 24 hours after being named captain for Team Wales at the Commonwealth Games, Stanford went down on the Formula One track.