Bruno Manga has committed to Cardiff City for the next two seasons. Central defender Manga signed a new two-year contract and then said: “I am really pleased to be continuing my adventure with this magnificent club. “My thanks to the manager and the board for having trust in me. Now it’s time to work towards […]

Lauren Williams has vowed to come back stronger after missing out on a medal in her first World Taekwondo Championships. The Blackwood-born fighter was beaten in her quarter-final bout in Muju, South Korea, by China’s Mengyu Zhang at -67kg.

Glamorgan will be the happier of the two sides after day one of their day-night Championship clash with Derbyshire at Cardiff, having bowled the visitors out for 288, and ending the day on 5-0 in reply. Derbyshire failed to capitalise on winning the toss as it took Glamorgan just 3.4 overs to get their first wicket with the pink ball on the same strip that had been used by England and South Africa in their T20 clash. Timm van der Gugten trapped Luis Reece leg before wicket as the batsman shouldered arms with his team on 1.

Neil Warnock is still keen to add three more players to his squad for 2017-18 before their first pre-season fixture at Taffs Well. The Bluebirds manager has already added five new signings, while he also wants to see several members of the Cardiff City squad move on. He has accepted an Ipswich Town an undisclosed […]

Rory Best resisted the opportunity to criticise referee Romain Poite after the British and Irish Lions were held to a 31-31 draw by the Hurricanes in Wellington. Poite sent lock Iain Henderson to the sin bin for a tip-tackle on Jordie Barrett in the final quarter and the home team ran in two tries in his absence. ‘It was obviously touch and go but when you’re being officiated by a quality referee like Romain Poite and he takes his time and goes to the TMO, you’ve got to trust that the guy has got it right,’ Best told Sky Sports.

Newport made it a hat-trick of wins in the Clogau Gold Ladies Team Championship, appropriately equalling the record of Southerndown after beating them in a close fought final. Welsh Ladies Amateur champion Lauren Hillier sank the winning putt for her team, after taking her match against Wales international Georgia Lewis to extra holes, with a series of tight matches going the way of the Gwent club.

Cardiff City Academy players have tested themselves against some of Europe’s leading clubs. The young Bluebirds took on Inter Milan, Feyenoord and Ajax. Cardiff’s under-11s defeated all three, while the under-9 and under-10 teams also earned positive results. These close-season tests were designed to competitively test the club’s younger age groups against some of Europe’s […]

Former Cardiff City defender Gethin Jones has signed for Welsh League Penybont FC. Carmarthen-born Jones made six appearances for the Bluebirds 15 years ago including two 7-1 wins, against Rushden, when Gavin Gordon scored four goals, and Oldham Athletic. Andy Campbell netted a hat-trick against Oldham. Jones, 35, played for Southern League Cirencester Town last […]

Todd Kelman is ready for the most important day of the year for Elite League hockey. Cardiff Devils managing director Kelman is attending the League fixtures meeting along with representatives from the other 11 teams. For the first time in EIHL history, the fixtures meeting will have 12 teams sitting around the table. Guildford Flames and […]

Tenby’s Lewis James went one better than last year to become Welsh champion at the 2017 Honda RYA Youth RIB powerboating event in Swansea. With a winning time of 1.21 in the 13-16 age group the 15-year-old will go forward to represent Wales at the national finals at the Southampton Boat Show in September, along with Cadan Pearce from Tresaith Mariners in West Wales who came out top in the 8-12 age group.

Sporting anniversaries are often ten-a-penny, but here’s one worth stopping to reflect on. Owen Morgan salutes that unforgettable night, now 12 months ago, when Wales beat Belgium and a middle-aged man believed he could fly. Is it really almost a year since I leapt out of my seat in a South Wales valleys constitutional club and threw myself into the arms of a burly stranger enjoying a pint at the bar? Having double checked the calendar, apparently it is. July 1, 2016: Belgium 1 – Wales 3. European Championship Quarter-Final.

Neil Warnock shocked Taffs Well FC officials when he strolled into their clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon in April. The Bluebirds manager has a friend who lives close to the Wellmen’s Rhiw Ddar ground and popped in for a chat. “There was a knock at the door one afternoon and it was the Cardiff City […]

Welsh rally star Osian Pryce leads the British Rally Championship after a quick, consistent and sure-footed debut podium at the Ypres Rally, one of Europe’s most notoriously tricky events. Ahead of the start of the Belgian classic, Pryce admitted the season’s first all-asphalt encounter was the rally he was looking forward to least, having no experience or knowledge of what remains a hugely specialist event where success first time out is almost unheard of.

October’s Dayinsure Wales Rally GB will blast off in sensational style when the world’s best rally drivers take on a new challenge to open the event. A spectacular competitive stage will be created at the Tir Prince Raceway in Towyn, County Conwy, complete with jump and donut, to begin three days of unmissable World Rally Championship action.

Alex Symonds is feeling right at home in South Wales. The Newport-born defenceman has signed for Cardiff Fire, who will compete in the second tier of British ice hockey in 2017-18. National League Fire are bringing Symonds, a product of the Devils junior development programme, back to Cardiff. Head coach Mark Cuddihy has now signed […]

Oxford Saints 42, South Wales Warriors 0 The South Wales Warriors look set for relegation after suffering their eighth and heaviest defeat of the season. The Warriors, who at the beginning of the year opted to drop down from the Premiership, had travelled to Oxford looking for a first win of 2017 and to keep alive their hopes of at least matching the Solent Thrashers’ record of three victories.

The New Saints, Connah’s Quay, Bangor City and Bala Town – all four of the Welsh Premier League’s European entrants for 2017/18 – go into first qualifying round, first leg ties this week. Two from four progressed from this stage last season, the same the year before, but there is no certainty of a repeat […]

Liam Williams’ leap from dirt-tracker to Lions Test full-back has inspired the rest of the midweek back-up, according to Robbie Henshaw. Wales star Williams moved up the pecking order after his scintillating display against the Chiefs and justified his selection for the Eden Park Test on Saturday with his attacking intent. After the All Blacks won 30-15 in Auckland, Ireland centre Henshaw believes more Test places are up for grabs when the Lions play the Hurricanes on Tuesday.

Justin Faryna, Cardiff Devils newest signing, admits he has a short temper and a fighter’s instinct. The man from Calgary and fast a fiery, a forward who has scored at more than a point a game during two seasons playing Elite League hockey for Dundee Stars. The 6ft tall winger has also wracked up more […]

Celtic Flames, a brand new netball Super Club team from Wales, are on their way to New Zealand. While the British Lions are battling with the All Blacks in a rugby union battle, Flames are Welsh representatives in a tournament featuring some of the best club netball teams in the World. They will represent the […]