Welsh Athletics has launched a search to replace former Olympian Matt Elias who has announced he is leaving his post in charge of developing the nation’s sprinting talent. A statement by the sport’s governing body said Elias, who won a clutch of medals for Wales and Great Britain at the Commonwealth Games and European Athletics Championships, is leaving his post to “pursue other opportunities within the sport”. Although Elias will continue to support Wales’ sprints programme for the rest of the summer, Welsh Athletics has immediately launched a recruitment process for a new national talent development coordinator for sprints, hurdles and relays.

Geraint Thomas has vowed to carry on fighting insisting it is still all to play for at the Tour de France despite losing time to his rivals on the first race against the clock. Riding the 27km time trial with his right shoulder still heavily strapped after dislocating it on stage three on Monday, 2018 Tour champ Thomas kne

By Paul Jones Kiran Carlson and David Harrison will both step up for Glamorgan’s Royal London Cup campaign as Carlson is appointed captain and Harrison named as head coach. With club captain Chris Cooke and vice-captain David Lloyd both drafted in The Hundred, 23-year-old Carlson will lead the team in the 50-over competition, while Harrison will take over the reins from Matt Maynard when he joins Welsh Fire’s coaching set up. Director of cricket, Mark Wallace believes both will gain valuable experience from this opportunity.

Two of Wales’ brightest young sprinters have been selected to represent Great Britain at next month’s European Under-23 Championships in Estonia. Jeremiah Azu and Joe Brier are part of a 54-strong team travelling to Tallinn for the championships which start on July 8.

Geraint Thomas thankfully come through stage four of the Tour de France unscathed as he gets ready for the first big individual test of the race. The 2018 champ finished safely in the pack on Tuesday – just 24 hours after his Yellow Jersey hopes looked in tatters after a heavy crash.

More than 300 golfers of all ages and abilities helped to make the first ever Wales Golf Festival a huge success and a blueprint for the future. The three day event at Parc Golf Club near Newport included players from as young as seven through to senior level, beginners, players with a disability and a PING Welsh Junior Tour event.

Welsh 1500m star Jake Heyward is Tokyo bound after being named in GB’s team for the Olympic Games. The Cardiff runner – now based at the Oregon Elite Track Club in the USA – finished third in the trials in Manchester last Saturday.

Aberdare duo Emily James and Mia Bernardo have been selected to represent Great Britain at this year’s Aerobic European Championships in Italy in September. In their first year in the senior ranks, 17-year-old James – who trains between Bulmershe GC in Reading and Phoenix DGC in Aberdare – and Bernardo, 18, from Phoenix, will become the first Welsh aerobic gymnasts to go to a European Championships since former senior women’s British champion Kayleigh Silver eight years ago. The pair have been selected as part of a five-strong senior group alongside double senior British individual champion Niamh Keane (Bulmershe) and Basingstoke Gymnastics Club duo Keleigh-Anne Blakey and Elizabeth Marais.

Meirion Evans was on a high in Scotland at the weekend, after recording his first major rally win on the Argyll Rally. In doing so, he also gave the Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 and Michelin Pilot Sport A tyre its first outright rally victory in the UK.

Geraint Thomas was to undergo an ultrasound on Monday night after dislocating his shoulder in a Tour de France crash. Wales’s 2018 champ had the shoulder painfully reset after the shunt following a touch of wheels just 37km into the 183km long stage three from Lorient to Pontivy.

Martin Galway enjoyed the biggest win of his career at the Welsh Seniors Open, with a hole-in-one setting him on the way to victory. In fact England golfer Galway and playing partner Richard Norton both had a hole-in-one in their opening round together at Tenby. “I don’t know what the chances of that are, astronomical I imagine,” said Galway, of East Sussex National golf club.

Ben Pritchard has revealed he was unaware of the Paralympics when he suffered the accident that set him on a new course to Tokyo this summer. The Welsh para rower is one five debutants in a Great Britain squad of eight rowers heading for the Games in August. Pritchard made his international debut just two years ago after a cycling crash in September 2016 left him paralysed from the waist down.

Geraint Thomas lost time to his main Tour de France rivals on the brutal finish to stage two at Mur-de-Bretagne. Wales’s 2018 Tour champ slipped from 10th overall to 20th spot as the spectacular start to this year’s battle for the Yellow Jersey continued.

Bethan Davies claimed a sixth British outdoor 5,000m race walk title on a successful day for Welsh athletes in Manchester on Sunday afternoon. The Cardiff athlete was one of the most comprehensive winners on the third and final day of the Muller British Athletics Championships and British Olympic trials in Manchester.

Elfyn Evans picked up four precious points as he recovered to finish 10th on the Safari Rally. But the Dolgellau-born racer still saw his WRC title hopes take a big hit as Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Sebastien Ogier claimed his second win in a row.

Welsh 1500m star Jake Heyward must wait and see whether he has done enough to book a place at next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Cardiff athlete won bronze on day two of the Muller British Athletics Championships in Manchester, which doubles as the Great Britain Olympic trials.

Geraint Thomas is under no illusions about the level of competition he faces as he attempts to win his second Tour de France over the next three weeks. The Team Ineos Grenadiers rider will embark on his 11th Tour this weekend as the world’s biggest bike race gets underway in the town of Brest, in Britanny. After a disappointing 2020, in which he crashed out in stage three of the Giro d’Italia, Thomas believes he is in good shape ahead of this year’s race, having finished third, behind team-mate Richie Porte, in the Criterium du Dauphine, and won the Tour de Romandie.

Elfyn Evans was left to rue a ‘clumsy’ error as he was forced to retire from the Safari Rally inflicting a blow to his World Championship hopes. The Dolgellau-born ace struck a rock on stage three forcing his Toyota Yaris WRC to grind to a halt just a kilometre from the end.

Jake Heyward literally strolled into Saturday’s 1500m final at the Muller British Athletics Championships and Tokyo Olympic trials on Friday night. The American-based athlete cruised to victory in the fourth heat of the 1500m with fellow Welshman Piers Copeland finishing second to also qualify automatically for the final.

The Cardiff Devils have announced the signing of talented Canadian offensive defenceman Matt Register, who joins following a successful spell in North America’s ECHL. Register, 31, is a three-time Kelly Cup champion in the ECHL and signs for Cardiff following an impressive 52-point (5 goals, 47 assists) season with the Allen Americans, helping them reach […]