Swansea City will go into their derby day clash against Cardiff City, having edged a transfer tussle for players, 2-1, in the final countdown to the game. The Swans signed central defender Nelson Abbey on a season-long loan from Olympiakos.

The Paralympics begin in Paris on Wednesday, putting on display the talents of remarkable athletes in a city still riding the wave of the highly successful Olympics. A new generation of Paralympians will be joined by seasoned veterans competing in many of the same sensational venues in the centre of the French capital that hosted Olympic sports.

Craig Bellamy has declared himself very happy with his back-room team, having brought in some trusted assistants to take Wales forward. The new Wales manager has drafted in Brighton first team coach Andrew Crofts, who will continue to work primarily for the Premier League club.

The New Saints have taken a commanding step towards the Europa Conference League group stages with a stunning 3-0 win over FK Panevėžys in Lithuania. Despite key absences, TNS now return to Park Hall poised to become the first Cymru Premier team to reach the group stage of a European competition.

Is there a higher form of trust than riding a Paralympic tandem? A visually impaired ‘stoker’ provides power and is guided around the velodrome track at breathtaking high speed by a sighted pilot.

Luke Williams has only been Swansea City’s head coach for seven months, but he reckons he knows the recipe for derby success against Cardiff City. El Taffico has it’s own Welsh flavour – laverbread simmered in Brains Bitter – and Williams believes he got a taste for it immediately back in March.

Steve Cooper made a steady, rather than spectacular start to his new life as Leicester City manager, but his influence was clear. The only Welsh manager operating in the Premier League began the season with a 1-1 draw at home to Tottenham, thanks to a goal from Jamie Vardy.

S4C will show every Wales senior men’s match in the Autumn Nations Series for the next two years. The games will be available on television, as well as on S4C Clic and BBC iPlayer.

Joe Cordina has been given an immediate chance to get his hands back on a world title belt with a challenge for the WBC lightweight crown in Saudi Arabia. Cordina – who lost his super-featherweight world title to Anthony Cacace in May – will move up a weight to challenge highly-rated American Shakur Stevenson on October 12 in Riyadh.

Newport have kicked-off their 150th anniversary season in fine style with big pre-season wins over Usk, Brecon and Blackheath. The Black & Ambers are hoping to go one better than the runners-up spot they finished in during last season’s Indigo Premiership campaign. The previous season they were runners-up in the WRU Premiership Cup.

Swansea’s boccia champion David Smith is “raring to go” for Paris but feels Adam Peaty’s near miss at the Olympics proves how difficult it is to win gold at three successive Games. The 35-year-old travels to the Paralympics as Britain’s most successful player of the boules-like sport and looking to defend the individual BC1 title he claimed in Rio and retained in Tokyo.

Aled Davies will head the Welsh contingent heading for Paris and the start of the Paralympic Games in Paris next week. The shot and discus thrower will compete at his fourth Paralympics for Great Britain and defend his F42 shot put title he won in Tokyo three years ago.

New Cardiff City signing Jesper Daland is keen to be thrown straight into the heat of a Welsh derby against Swansea City on Sunday. The Norwegian defender expects to figure for the Bluebirds, having moved from Belgian club Cercle Brugge for a fee understood to be around £3.5m.

Cardiff City are set to sign Manchester United defender Will Fish on a permanent transfer, according to reports in Manchester. The 21-year-old – who made one Premier League appearance for United in the 2020/21 season and has been out on loan in Scotland with Hibernian – is seen by the Bluebirds as a replacement for Luton Town-bound £10m-rated Mark McGuinness.

Newport won the Welsh Women’s Team Championships in Rhuddlan to confirm their status as the dominant women’s club team in Wales in recent years. It was their fifth title in the last decade, the second victory in the last three years, for the club who have reached the final 11 times since 2009, including all of the last four.

Dan Biggar believes Wales have something to build on after displaying “enough promising signs” during their Australia tour. A 2-0 series defeat against the Wallabies this summer extended Wales’ losing run to nine Tests – one short of equalling the record sequence in 2002 and 2003.

By Gareth James Joel Makin believes he has taken a huge stride forward after dethroning champion Mohamed ElShorbagy to become British National champion. The Welsh star – currently ranked world number nine – beat ElShorbagy, the only UK player ranked higher at eight, in a pulsating final. Once again it was Makin’s trademark fitness that […]

By David Williams Nia Jones has declared her time in top level netball is over after she was omitted from both Cardiff Dragons and Wales squads. The Dragons and Welsh Feathers captain has not been given a contract by the Dragons for the upcoming season, although the club – one of eight new franchises in […]

Glamorgan hero Dan Douthwaite can’t wait for the Metro Bank One Day Cup Final at Trent Bridge next month, having missed out on the 2021 tournament victory. Douthwaite turned into a matchwinner with both bat and ball as he guided Glamorgan towards a 39-run victory over Warwickshire at Sophia Gardens.

Beaten Welsh Fire captain Tammy Beaumont insisted she was proud of her team despite their defeat to London Spirit at Lord’s in the women’s final of The Hundred. Spirit successfully chased down 115 to beat Welsh Fire and claim the title in front of a record 22,008 fans.