Wales’ javelin thrower Hollie Arnold insisted she had no regrets about her appearance on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! after being disappointed with Paralympic bronze as she relinquished her crown in Tokyo. Defending champion Arnold set a Games record of 43.01m in storming to gold in Rio but was unable to replicate that performance on a soggy night in the Japanese capital. The four-time 27-year-old world champion’s effort of 39.73m was only good enough for the final place on the podium on a day which yielded six GB athletics medals at the Olympic Stadium including golds for Owen Miller and Jonathan Broom-Edwards.

By Tom Prosser Ethan George is the latest Welsh boxer to turn professional and he has inked a deal with MTK Global who also manage the likes of Tyson Fury and Josh Taylor. Hailing from Llanelli, George caused an impact on the local amateur scene, with a lot of his fights ending in victory with one punch knockouts. The former National Finalist now enters the paid ranks under the tutelage of world-renowned trainer Tony Borg, who also trains the likes of former world champion Lee Selby.

By Tom Prosser Swansea’s Paul Karabardak says his “dreams have come true” after winning his second Paralympic medal in the space of a week, as he claimed silver in the table tennis team event. Karabardak has had to wait a long time for his first Paralympic medal after previously competing at the games in 2008, 2012 and 2016 but he has achieved his dream at the fourth time of asking. The 35-year-old has played superbly in this tournament and goes home with a team silver to add to his men’s class 6 singles bronze.

Swansea’s David Smith has been crowned the Cristiano Ronaldo of boccia following his history-making gold in Tokyo as he revealed the feat was inspired by the supernatural presence of his late grandfather. The eccentric 32-year-old became the Paralympic-specific game’s most successful British player after retaining his individual BC1 title with a tense win over Malaysia’s Chew Wei Lun on Wednesday. World champion Smith – who grew up in Southampton, but moved to Swansea 10 years ago – said he felt the spirit of Second World War RAF serviceman Charlie,  who died around 16 years ago, as he battled back from an early deficit to cry tears of joy inside the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.

Charlotte Arter has admitted she is as surprised as anyone to be the new Welsh record holder for the women’s 5K. The woman who has twice broken the world parkrun record set a new mark for a Welsh 5K when mass participation racing returned to the streets of Cardiff at the weekend. Arter won the elite ladies race and claimed the Welsh title in a new national record at the annual Cardiff 5K, while Newport’s Abed Teweldebrhan claimed the men’s Welsh title.

Aled Davies is arguably one of the most successful Paralympians of all time, his success has been an inspiration to many people all over the world. He is now aiming to make it a hat-trick in Tokyo after winning gold at both London 2012 and Rio 2016, as Tom Prosser reports. Welsh Para sport legend Aled Davies has already won gold at two Paralympic Games so you would be forgiven for thinking he has experienced it all. But this time around his preparation has been rather different due to the disruption of the pandemic.

Olivia Breen has revealed she had to grit her teeth and fight through the pain in order to clinch her Paralympic bronze medal. Wales’ Commonwealth Games champion of 2018 earned her medal in a high quality T38 long jump in Tokyo in which she broke the Paralympic record with her opening leap before Luka Ekler of Hungary smashed the world record. Breen eventually finished third behind Ekler and Russia’s Margarita Goncharova, but revealed a torn muscle in her shoulder had hampered her preparation.

By Paul Evans On the first asphalt rally to be held on the Epynt military range for two years, Melvyn Evans charged to victory on the opening round of the 2021 Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship, The Old Forge Garage Mewla Rally. Against strong opposition, he and co-driver Mark Glennerster had to push their Škoda Fabia R5 to the limit to secure what in the end looked a comfortable 26 second victory. Having won the event in 2003, it was Evans’ second Mewla Rally win of his career.

By Tom Prosser  Harri Jenkins’ decision to switch from basketball to wheelchair racing has paid dividends after the Neath athlete claimed a bronze medal at his debut Paralympic games. “I didn’t switch for this, the decision to switch was just for me,” explained Jenkins who was born with cerebral palsy. “I needed something else to motivate me as I’d lost motivation in basketball. “And here I am a bronze medallist.

A serious knee injury suffered by reigning world champion Matt Bush means Beth Munro will be carrying Welsh hopes for Team GB when the taekwondo starts at the Tokyo Paralympics next week. It’s a top billing that has come like a bolt from the blue as Tom Prosser reports. Six short months ago, if you had told Welsh taekwondo star Beth Munro she would be going to compete at the Tokyo Paralympics, she would have laughed. It has been a crazy few months for Munro, who had realistically targeted Paris in three years’ time, rather than this summer’s event.

Bronze medalist Paul Karabardak has vowed to chase more silverware next week after winning bronze at the Paralympics The Swansea table tennis veteran finally got on the podium for Great Britain in Tokyo after missing out in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Karabardak won his quarter-final, but had to settle for bronze after losing in three straight games to American Ian Seidenfeld in his semi-final.

After almost 18 months in hibernation, live competitive gymnastics in Wales returns over this Bank Holiday weekend with the Rhythmic Welsh Open Championships in Cardiff. Tickets are available for spectators to attend this event, which is being held at the Sport Wales National Centre at Sophia Gardens on Sunday 29th and Monday 30th August. It will be the first Welsh competition since March 2020.

Olivia Breen will be the first of Wales’ magnificent seven track and field stars to compete when the athletics schedule gets underway at the Tokyo Paralympics. The sprinter will take to the blocks in the early hours of Saturday morning when she lines up for the women’s T38 100m. The heats start at 2:38am UK time and should Breen qualify, she would line up for the final at a minute after noon the same day.

A lot can happen in 539 days, just ask the Cardiff Devils. Tonight they will mark their return to Ice Arena Wales (IAW) for the first time since March 2020 where they’ll go toe-to-toe with Germany’s Alder Mannheim in their opening game of the Champions Hockey League – Europe’s top continental club competition. The Devils, […]

People were beginning to ask Meirion Evans if he’d retired from competitive driving. After all, he’s more often seen working as team manager in the family-run Melvyn Evans Motorsport operation nowadays, running cars for the likes of Matt Edwards and Osian Pryce in the British Rally Championship. Well, that’s sparked Evans back into action.

By Owen Morgan Aled Davies has spoken of his “absolute honour” at being named co-captain of the Great Britain athletics team alongside Hannah Cockroft at the Tokyo Paralympics. The Cardiff Athletics thrower won gold in Rio five years ago to add to his illustrious list of career titles. Having burst onto the international scene with gold and bronze medals at the 2012 London Paralympics, Davies will be defending his title in the men’s F63 shot put on Saturday 4 September.

Ben Pritchard is used to arriving ahead of schedule. He joined the British rowing squad just a year after becoming a para rower in 2017 and is now about to compete at his first Paralympics in Tokyo after first targeting Paris in 2024, as David Williams reports. The last time rowing took place at the Paralympics, Ben Pritchard was laying in a hospital bed, wondering how he was going to rebuild his life. The Welsh para rower suffered a life-changing cycling accident in 2016 at the very time the best disabled athletes on the planet had gathered to compete in Rio de Janeiro.

By Tom Prosser  Welsh snooker legend Mark Williams says he was ‘destined to win’ the British Open on Sunday evening as he beat Gary Wilson 6-4 to claim yet another ranking title. “I’m a little bit fortunate to win it,” said Williams who first won the British Open title in 1997. “There were two or probably three matches that I definitely should have lost but somehow I managed to win them.

By Tom Prosser  When soon-to-be Paralympian Harrison Walsh first started his athletics journey, it was obvious to his coach he had a future star on his hands. Walsh – who was a highly promising rugby player with the Ospreys before a serious injury closed that route – will be competing in the F64 Discus at the Paralympics as he aims to win a medal at his debut Games.  He will be joined in Tokyo by six other Welsh track and field athletes, including Aled Davies, who will be competing at the Paralympics for the third time in the F63 Shot Put. 

When their 2019 British American Football campaign finished the South Wales Warriors were already planning for 2020 as the club’s comeback season. They had sealed a perfect season with the Division Two (South) championship on the final weekend of August 2019 and were set to start their climb back towards the Premiership having also secured their place in Division One of the British American Football Association National League. The club’s rebuilding efforts were finally being rewarded but its much anticipated 2020 season would never materialise. Like so much sport below the professional level British American Football had remained in, seemingly indefinite, suspension since March 2020.