By Gareth James New Welsh world champion Zoe Bäckstedt revealed she had her whole family in tears after winning the junior road race title at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships in Belgium. The teenager from Pontyclun in mid-Glamorgan cried on the podium, while her parents and sister wept tears of joy after watching her […]

The Cardiff Devils will get their 2021/22 Elite League season underway tonight against the Guildford Flames in their home opener at Ice Arena Wales. The Devils face the Flames in the Challenge Cup before visiting old rivals Sheffield Steelers in a Sunday showdown in the Elite League. Now coached by Jarrod Skalde, the Devils have […]

By James Skeldon As the domestic cricket season draws to a close, ECB chief executive Tom Harrison believes The Hundred has opened up a whole new audience to the sport. Welsh Fire were one of eight teams to compete in the brand new competition, aimed at bringing in higher revenues to the sport and attracting […]

Wales’ leading male gymnast, Brinn Bevan, missed out on Olympic selection this year due to injury. But the 2016 Olympian is refusing to be feel downcast and has instead set himself a new ambition – to wear the red vest of Wales at the Commonwealth Games for the first time, as he tells Tom Prosser. Welsh Gymnastics star Brinn Bevan says he can’t wait to get the dragon on his chest as he aims to honour his late father’s side of the family by representing Wales at next year’s Commonwealth Games. Bevan previously competed at the 2016 Olympic Games and has also medalled at the World Championships – winning silver in the team event in 2015.

Glamorgan’s season may be drifting towards a low key conclusion in the County Championship, but no-one appears to have told captain Chris Cooke. The skipper smashed an unbeaten 205 as Glamorgan spent day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship second division match against Surrey constructing a mammoth total of 672 for 6 declared. The home side responded with 45 for no wicket in the final hour but despite a very flat wicket Cooke hopes the first double-hundred of 35-year-old Cooke’s 12-year first-class career can still set up a victory for his team in their final game of the campaign.

Zoe Backstedt powered to ITT silver on her World Championships debut in Flanders – as father Magnus provided the commentary. The 16-year-old was just edged out of junior women’s gold in Bruges as she kept the family name on the podium.

Emily Thomas says she is looking forward to new opportunities after deciding to retire from top level gymnastics following a series of knee injuries Thomas, 20, and Wales’ leading artistic gymnast of recent years, has chosen to stop competing – dealing a blow to Wales’ hopes of medals at next year’s Commonwealth Games. The former Great Britain squad member and all-round Welsh champion suffered a knee injury in 2019 and although she battled back to fitness, a ruptured ligament in June of this year led her eventually to decide to retire.

Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls are all legendary NBA teams and young Welsh basketball players will soon have a chance to represent them, as Tom Prosser reports.   Michael Jordan and LeBron James are global sporting icons but soon there could be a pathway to such NBA legends that starts here in Wales. Basketball Wales and the NBA are joining forces to create a new league right here in Wales, that could one day mean the sport’s major stars of the future are produced somewhere near you. 

Dewi Griffiths has put the disappointment of not making it to the Tokyo Olympics behind him and is setting his sights on next year’s Commonwealth Games. The Swansea Harrier – Wales’ leading marathon runner – admits his “head went” due to the disappointment of failing to claim a place in Japan at the marathon trials in London last March. After leading for much of the race, Griffiths fell away in the closing stages, finishing fourth in 2:13.42 – outside the qualifying places and time.

By Rob Cole Glamorgan coach Matthew Maynard believes the Welsh county can go out with a bang as they take on Surrey at The Oval next Tuesday in the LV= Insurance County Championship. Gloucestershire beat Glamorgan by 10 wickets on Wednesday with two sessions to come as Zafar Gohar Khan finished with 6-43 at Cardiff […]

Brinn Bevan marked his return to the competition floor in style as he was crowned British champion on parallel bars – and now wants to take on the world again. The 24-year-old, from South Essex Gymnastics Club, was competing at the 2021 Men’s British Championships in Cardiff.

By Tom Prosser  Wales’ Olympic and Paralympic heroes were celebrated at a special homecoming at the Senedd on Monday evening. Three time gold medalist Aled Davies, Taekwondo silver medalist Lauren Williams and Joshua Bugajski who won bronze in the rowing were all in attendance. Hockey bronze medal duo Leah Wilkinson and Sarah Jones were also at the event. The couple are currently planning their wedding and were thrilled to both be in the same team in Tokyo.

By Alex Bywater Eoin Morgan believes the inaugural season of The Hundred has changed cricket in England and Wales forever and will improve the chances of his International side’s success in white-ball cricket.      England’s 50-over and Twenty20 captain Morgan has long advocated the country’s most promising young talent being exposed to the pressures of playing at the […]

Swansea Harriers enjoyed a senior double at the Welsh Road Relay Championships on Saturday. After a year’s break due to COVID-19, the event returned to a sunny but windy Pembrey Country Park near Llanelli.

A number of Wales’ endurance athletes produced eye-catching performances on the road over the weekend.

Jeremiah Azu continues to lead the pack of Welsh sprinters closing in on Christian Malcolm’s 20-year-old Welsh 100m record. The 20-year-old shaved another 0.03 of a second off his personal best at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday.

Elfyn Evans made an astonishing comeback on the Acropolis Rally, but the gearbox problems that prevented him from challenging for victory in Greece have all-but ended his chances of becoming world rally champion this year. The Dolgellau ace was flying in his Toyota Yaris WRC over the opening two stages of the event and was lying in third place, just 1.7 seconds behind the leader, when his problems hit.

By Carl Field Some of Britain’s biggest names in men’s artistic gymnastics will descend on Cardiff this weekend to compete in the 2021 Men’s British Championships. Rio 2016 Olympian Brinn Bevan (South Essex) headlines the Welsh contingent looking to make their mark on this year’s championships, which are being staged at the Sport Wales National Centre at Sophia Gardens over Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September. It also doubles up as a trial event for October’s World Artistic Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Aberdare duo Mia Bernardo and Emily James gave a glimpse of what they might achieve on a European stage when they struck gold at the Aerobic British Championships in Guildford. The talented Welsh pair, back competing across what were two action-packed days at Surrey Sports Park last weekend, were part of a five-strong group in the senior group competition, winning with a score of 18.894. Along with Bernardo (Phoenix Dance & Gymnastics) and James (Bulmershe/Phoenix), the wining group also included Niamh Keane (Bulmershe) and Basingstoke pair Keleigh-Anne Blakey and Elizabeth Marais.

By Paul Jones Glamorgan captain Chris Cooke says they haven’t become a bad team overnight after their heavy defeat to Durham in the County Championship. Durham wrapped up an innings and 42-run victory, requiring only 10 overs to take the final three Glamorgan wickets on the final day at Emirates Riverside.